Arbitrary power is but the first natural step from anarchy, or the savage life.

Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.

We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.

That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.

Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.

When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday

The sight of you is good for sore eyes.

He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.

Parenting is the most important responsibility most of us will ever face, and none of us does it perfectly.

In times of troubles, we call on Lord Jesus Christ, He saved us.

Doubts are like stains on a shirt. I like shirts with stains, because when I'm given a shirt that's too clean, one that's completely white, I immediately start having doubts.

Justice is possible without equality, I believe, because of compassion and understanding. If I have compassion, then if I have more than you, which is unequal, I will still do the just thing by you.

I often wonder if my knowledge about God has not become my greatest stumbling block to my knowledge of God.

I was very fascinated with meteorology at a young age. I lived on the Gulf Coast and hurricanes blew through there. That is the class I failed in college: meteorology.

As if a woman of education bought things because she wanted 'em.

I was never an Angry Young Man. I am angry only when I hit my thumb with a hammer.

So, the fear of death might be described as the fear of not being able to become whom one had planned to be.

Gene Roddenberry was a genius.