I went to a local high school in Lancaster. Not much I can say about it; it was pretty much your typical public high school back in Pennsylvania.

Make sure that you always follow your heart and your gut, and let yourself be who you want to be, and who you know you are. And don't let anyone steal your joy.

Just follow your joy. Always. I think that if you do that, life will take you on the course that it's meant to take you.

Musical auditions are always the worst because you have to sing and act, and that's so stressful.

At the end of the day, the end of the movie is sort of ambiguous - it's whatever you want it to be.

In a play, you can adjust your performance to audience reaction, but in a film it's like you're trapped in a bad dream watching yourself act and you're in the audience

If I were to be back on Glee, I would like to spend some time with Lea Michele because I love her and we go way back.

We didn't have a glee club at my school. It depends on what area of the States you're from. It's more in the Midwest.

If it’s convenient to love you, you’re lying to someone about who you are or what you need.

Wear your learning like your watch in a private pocket and do not pull it out and strike it merely to show that you have one.

Politics are not the task of a Christian.

Everything's a risk, by the way, these days. Every film you make is a risk. There's no guarantee.

You can learn a lot, watching things eat.

The acknowledgment of and gratitude for favors and gifts received is loved and esteemed in Heaven and on earth.

What you believe, what you value, how you live - matters.

I love my people. They have the right to live like any other nation on Earth.

Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who posses it; and this I know, my lords: that where law ends, tyranny begins.

O, where is loyalty? If it be banished from the frosty head, Where shall it find a harbor in the earth?