Only when men are connected to large, universal goals are they really happy-and one result of their happiness is a rush of creative activity.

Memory blurs, that's the point. If memory didn't blur you wouldn't have the fool's courage to do things again, again, again, that tear you apart.

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.

I never change, I simply become more myself.

How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look.

Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.

Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.

See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there's a reason. There has to be

Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless!

It’s not like I planned it. I never woke up from some rosy dream and said, “Okay, world, today I’m gonna spaz.

Biologists will teach us that the survival of the species depends on cooperation, not competition.

Total commitment is the common denominator among all successful men and women.

To be honest with you, being Bruce isn't easy.

I've felt that dissatisfaction is the basis of progress. When we become satisfied in business, we become obsolete.

When life beats you down, NEVER give up.

London is full of women who trust their husbands. One can always recognize them. They look so thoroughly unhappy.

Oh, my only – if I had one frustration in being on “West Wing” is I wasn’t on it enough, because I was in and out.

People come up to me and share very personal and intimate things with me, and I am so touched by all the trust they have in me.

What the brain does by itself is infinitely more fascinating and complex than any response it can make to chemical stimulation.