I'm a preservationist, I believe in preserving history intact, but I also enjoy the technological advances which have been made.

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.

Every day is not a day to master but an adventure to experience.

Encouragement fuels great strength and great achievement.

If there's one thing I don't look for in a maid, it's discretion. Except with my own secrets, of course.

I've always seen architecture as a healing art, not just as a beautification art.

They wanted me to lead these young players, teach them the way to compete, when the only thing I should be worried about is how I'm performing in the game.

If you born in the mud, you gonna be dirty, and people don't understand that.

God is the only evil. His vanity made him the devil.

Everyone you idolize wakes up scared to be themselves sometimes.

I've always said that I learned the English I know through two sources -- Marvel Comics and Finnegans Wake.

Anyone who breathes is in the rhythm business.