Escapist literature gets a bad rap. But I think escape is important for a lot of people in a lot of places.

The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Poets speak of hope in ladies smiles, but give me a smirk any day, I say.

Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.

Don't wish to be normal. Wish to be yourself. To the hilt. Find out what you're best at, and develop it, and hopscotch your weaknesses. Wish to be great at whatever you are.

I'm very interested in the impact of biotechnology on the way people live.

If you can't be seven feet tall, be seven feet smart.

Aim high. You may still miss the target, but at least you won't shoot your foot off.

Since no one is perfect, it follows that all great deeds have been accomplished out of imperfection. Yet they were accomplished, somehow, all the same.

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Adversity does teach who your real friends are.

Death is the end of our ephemeral life and the beginning of an infinite eternal life.

Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

We stress humanity, and this is done at considerable cost. We can't have a lot of dramatics that other shows get away with - promiscuity, greed, jealousy. None of those have a place in 'Star Trek.'

There are two things that interest me: the relation of people to each other, and the relation of people to land.

Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.

I'm always being inspired .

There was an unexpected freedom in finding out that one wasn't as important as one had always assumed!

When you want success as bad as you want to breathe, then you will be successful.

A person who wants to progress more rapidly and wishes to overcome unhappiness sooner, should try to find an enlightened master.

I look back on my years as a Wall Street lawyer as time spent in a foreign country.