“The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no plea...” — George Santayana Quote

The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and resents any aspersions that strangers may cast on her character.

Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts.

Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.

History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.

The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.

The thing with the film industry is if you become popular in one kind of role, you keep getting cast in the same thing.

I was in high school, and I was the guy that always got cast in the school play. Theater is huge in high school in Minnesota, and I knew that I was very good at that, and gifted, and I was 'the guy,' but it still wasn't something I ever thought of as 'a job' or something that one could do professionally.

Maybe I'm too masculine. Casting directors cast in their own, or an idealized image. Maybe I don't look like anybody's ideal.

Singing and dancing is not just for the cast of 'Glee'. We can wake up doing both and have it be a natural expression of who we are.