Insanity is just a state of mind.

Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while or the light won't come in. If you challenge your own, you won't be so quick to accept the unchallenged assumptions of others. You'll be a lot less likely to be caught up in bias or prejudice or be influenced by people who ask you to hand over your brains, your soul or your money because they have everything all figured out for you.

Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.

And I think belief is one of those things that comes to people in their own way. And just because I believe in something doesn't mean I think that you should.

Be brave enough to live creatively . . . what you'll discover will be wonderful: yourself.

When people are laughing, they're generally not killing one another.

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.