I always enjoyed going into the holodeck.

If the prime directives were followed a little more accurately here on earth, I mean it sounds somewhat Pollyanna, but I think people would certainly get along better.

Someone once said "Don't try to be a great man. Just be a man, and let history make its own judgements."

I've always thought that we, as human beings, would be naive and arrogant to pretend that we're the only life form in the galaxy.

I'm sort of in for a penny, in for a pound with Star Trek, It's my life at this point. To deny it would just be foolish.

No, the type-casting didn't happen until after Star Trek. I don't think that you get typecast until you've been cast!

I think Star Trek has been very double-edged for all of us - as actors, writers, directors.

I think, frankly, that I'm a better director than I was an actor.

I think, unfortunately or fortunately, the reality of Hollywood is that if your movie makes money, they'll make another one.

Don't get me wrong-I'm very thankful for all the aliens I've met and loved.

I don't think you ever leave Star Trek for good.

First love is amazing and wonderful, but a kind of panic underlies it, a sense of not knowing what you're doing.

A good way to forget your troubles is to help others out of theirs.

Charity is a very labour-intensive virtue.

It's a cakewalk, when you know how.

If a tornado twists at 175 miles an hour and stays on the ground like a massive lawnmower for 50 miles, God gave the command.

Happy was she who could believe without seeing, who was at one with the duration and continuity of life.

Life is much larger than how we image it, always, but society can be constricting in ways.

Buy good books, and read them; the best books are the commonest, and the last editions are always the best, if the editors are not blockheads.

In order to succeed greatly, you have to be prepared to fail greatly. If you can't do both of them, you've got a problem.

Hark to that shrill, sudden shout, The cry of an applauding multitude, Swayed by some loud-voiced orator who wields The living mass as if he were its soul!