I always have been optimistic about humanity's future. Always. Even at the most dismaying of times.

As time went on, I did campaign to lighten the character a little bit, to introduce some romance into the episodes, outside activities, horse riding and fencing and mountaineering.

The people who could do most to improve the situation of so many women and children are in fact, men.

Violence is never ever a choice that a man should make.

I wouldn't know a space-time continuum or warp core breach if they got into bed with me.

I wasn't campaigning for a role in a Hollywood television series, it was a fluke. So you've got to have a measure of good luck, you really have, being in the right place at the right time.

Having spent so much of my life with Shakespeare’s world, passions and ideas in my head and in my mouth, he feels like a friend—someone who just went out of the room to get another bottle of wine.

I would like to see us get this place right first before we have the arrogance to put significantly flawed civilizations out onto other planets, even though they may be utterly uninhabited.

I was brought up in a very poor and very violent household. I spent much of my childhood being afraid.

It is what you do from now on that will either move our civilization forward a few tiny steps, or else... begin to march us steadily backward.

Violence is a choice a man makes and he alone is responsible for it.

The most basic method one can use to let go of the past is by looking at it as a learning experience.

Thinking Too Much can Disturbs Your Other Important Strategies, SO Stop thinking take Action

What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.

No kids should see that kind of violence where Batman is killing as many people as the bad guys.

People like people who help them like themselves.

You have to learn the crowd. I just pay attention to them so I can make sure I can make them laugh.

I demolish my bridges behind me - then there is no choice but forward.

"True" resembles... a compliment paid to sentences that seem to be paying their way and that fit in with other sentences which are doing so.

For if Chloe likes Olivia and Mary Carmichael knows how to express it she will light a torch in that vast chamber where nobody has yet been.

I learned so much about recording and about singing on records from Ken Nelson.