I sincerely believe that everything - everything - is grace, and you have to stick around long enough to see it through. I'm a very optimistic person.

The most satisfying thing in my life and my career is to work with my children.

Aaron Sorkin very sticky about using precise language. It's in his contract: you have to use what he writes!

I love The West Wing for many reasons. The show has been a fantasy. But we have offered a parallel universe to reality.

Once you experience Third World poverty, you're really changed forever, if you're at all open to it, because we're all united in our common humanity. And we are so made as to feel something for people who are in pain. It's not possible to be human and to be unaffected by what you see in the third world.

I sincerely believe that everything - everything - is grace, and you have to stick around long enough to see it through. I'm a very optimistic person.

We are the generation that brought the bomb in. We have got to be the generation that should take it out.