“Eventually, I found a radical way of thinking about listening. Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.”

I’ve been lucky enough to live through all the things that are supposed to give meaning to our lives, like parenting, grandparenting, art, celebrity.

Loneliness is everything it’s cracked up to be.

If I don’t win, I’ll just wait until I’m nominated for being in the theater during the show. Do they have one like that?

I was brought up as a Catholic, and I’m no longer a Catholic.

Working on The West Wing was similar in many ways to my experience on M*A*S*H, because you had people willing to work late at night to get it just right.

I’m not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn’t interest me.

My relationship with science is as someone who’s curious and hungry to know, hungry to understand. So all I have to offer is my ignorance and my curiosity, which is a good combination, as long as they come together.

You wouldn’t want to be called a sell-out by selling a product.

You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition.

Everybody’s on their toes and focused on what we’re about to do, and then there’s this moment where you relax because you see that everybody is there to do the best that they can.

I’ve never tried to manipulate my image.

Really top-notch directors, I’ve often worked with them just to see how they work.

Our lives depend on good communication. Good communication helps personal relationships, it helps bosses and employees get along better. We rely on it.

Don’t ever aim doubt at yourself. Laugh at yourself, but don’t doubt yourself.

All these things you expect meaning to come from, and sometimes it comes when you’re not expecting it.

It isn’t necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It’s only necessary to be rich.

I once tried thinking for an entire day, but I found it less valuable than one moment of study.

In my experience as CEO, I found that the most important decisions tested my courage far more than my intelligence.

A CEO needs great intelligence and great courage. And I always found my courage was tested more.

That part of the Englishman’s nature which has found gratification in religion is now drifting into political life.

I have always found women difficult. I don’t really understand them. To begin with, few women tell the truth.

“Criminal justice” was a term she found more apt than it was meant to be.

A recent survey or North American males found 42% were overweight, 34% were critically obese and 8% ate the survey.

The thing we tell of can never be found be seeking, yet only seekers find it.