Confidence in the human capacity for problem solving, for invention, for innovation.

I spent my boyhood behind the barbed wire fences of American internment camps and that part of my life is something that I wanted to share with more people.

Our differences in beliefs do not truly separate us, or elevate us over others. Rather, they highlight the rich tapestry that is humanity.

If you have to make laws to hurt a group of people just to prove your morals and faith, then you have no true morals or faith to prove.

You know, I grew up in two American internment camps, and at that time I was very young.

We should indeed keep calm in the face of difference, and live our lives in a state of inclusion and wonder at the diversity of humanity.

It’s really hard to hate someone for being different when you’re too busy laughing together.

The only thing worse than human ignorance is human pride in that ignorance.

The starship Enterprise was a metaphor starship Earth, and the vision was that the strength of this starship lay in its diversity.

You know, when a man is raped you never hear about what he was wearing.

And it seems to me important for a country, for a nation to certainly know about its glorious achievements but also to know where its ideals failed, in order to keep that from happening again.

The more the state "plans" the more difficult planning becomes for the individual.

I think self-knowledge is a key to happiness.We can build happy lives only on the foundation of our own natures, our own values, and our own interests.

Your house is your first small business. It's where your investment is and [where] our greatest asset is.

Sin has a way of shrinking God down and puffing ourselves up.

A book is less important for what it says than for what it makes you think.

Courage isn't something you are born with. It comes to you with experience.

What is bad painting? Picabia made some deliberately bad paintings, but they were by him, so great in a way.

The better the writing, the easier it gets.

We're a very religious country; the government's secular.