I'm an anglophile. I visit England regularly, sometimes three or four times a year, at least once a year.

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.

To put a tempting face aside when duty demands every faculty is a lesson which takes most men longest to learn.

There is no business in the world so troublesome as the pursuit of fame: life is over before you have hardly begun your work.

I don't watch horror movies because they scare me!

... what such people miscall their religion, is a vent for their bad humours and arrogance.

One of my biggest inspirations is President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela. Yea, President Hugo.

In adverse hours the friendship of the good shines most; each prosperous day commands its friends.

It's one thing to fight for what you believe in, another thing to fight for what others believe in.

Books are not about messages. I write to understand my soul

"More fun than a barrel of monkeys." Has anyone ever stopped to think how cranky, if not downright vicious, a barrelful of monkeys would be, especially once released from the barrel?

Science has become adult; I am not sure whether scientists have.