I owe my success to expansion pitching, a short right field fence, and my hollow bats.

Pro-rated at 500 at-bats a year that means that for two years out of the fourteen I played, I never even touched the ball.

It's not my fate to give up--I know it can't be.

It used to be the smartest people didn't always want to be the richest people.

I love being on 'Modern Family.' One of my favorite things is looking forward to going to work every day.

There are no impediments now to corporations. None. And what they want is for us to give up. They want us to become passive. They want us to become tacitly complicit in our own destruction.

Whether I'm writing the script, or someone else writes the initial draft, I'm always an actor's director first. I always try to listen to them a lot, and try to put their voices into their character.

Sometimes to keep it together you've got to leave it alone.

being made happy isn't receiving something new, it's being made to understand what we have.

Without love the acquisition of knowledge only increases confusion and leads to self-destruction.

Megachurches. I can't be the only one frightened when our houses of worship sound like they could take on Godzilla.

The character, as written on the page, is just a blueprint for a human being.