I understand politicos gotta make bank. But cloistering with the Hollywood elite is not how you prove you're a man of the people.

As a writer, as a storyteller, you have to have your emotions close, and the older I've gotten, the less I've worried about not displaying emotions.

I don't know when I made that active decision to be a writer or to try to write, but I know I always liked storytelling.

When it comes to fighting for freedom, those who are willing to fight should not be limited by our bigotry. Only rewarded with our gratitude.

Facts tend to take the punch out of a good hate rant and are therefore left best unsaid.

For every horrific event, something beautiful happens.

My kids will find me walking around the house talking to myself and think I'm going crazy. I like to read the scripts out loud and really get the rhythm for the dialogue.

There's something very special about knowing what you want to do and knowing the story you want to tell, but finding it together.

With fear of stating the obvious: Freedom belongs to 'We the People,' not 'They the Politicians.'

Whatever you do, whether you're doing a television drama or a romantic comedy, you want to be relevant, to some degree.

I think I'm an overly emotional person. I feel a lot, but I don't believe that's unique to me or that's how I am able to do the things I do.

I like entrepreneurial people; I like people who take risks.

With the new ways of getting music out, you don't need a label if you're a legacy artist.

Anything that happens on any show is a plot contrivance because that's just storytelling.

Do you know how many concerts I've done in my whole life, in more than 35 years of performing? Sixty-four.

From every spot on earth we are equally near heaven and the infinite.

It is not when I am going to meet him, but when I am just turning away and leaving him alone, that I discover what God is. I say, God. I am not sure that that is the name. You will know what I mean.

If they are opposed to abortion, they should be for preventing unintended pregnancies.

Liberty means that a man is recognized as free and treated as free by those who surround him.

When the human race learns how to give and regive equally each will be enriched. He who withholds that which he should give to another impoverishes both himself and the other.

Curiosity is a mistress whose slaves decline no sacrifice.