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.

This is supposed to be a participatory democracy and if we're not in there participating then the people that will manipulate and exploit the system will step in there.

4:15. Not 4 not 4:30 but 4:15. She thought to intimidate me with the use of quarter hours.

If you lock the door on sorrow, how will it leave your heart?

Confidence is a fine trait. Over-confidence isn't.

You can't reinvent yourself using spare parts..."--Barry Randall from My Father's Ashes

Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces.

I'm not very impressed by people who yell "traitor" and "communist" and other less printable things. I don't like it.

There's some brain damage, but it may be that very brain damage that allows me to do the work I do.

I work because I think that I wouldn't feel good about myself unless I was contributing.

Let every man remind their descendants that they also are soldiers who must not desert the ranks of their ancestors, or from cowardice fall behind.

Sculpture will last a lot longer than painting.