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

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.

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.

One of my philosophies as a director is to listen to other people's great ideas because they'll help make you better.

The heart was designed to worship, and if it is not being utilized to worship God, it will worship something else.

I have a cottage in a dense forest and the animals of the forest are members of my cottage.

The matter of fees is important, far beyond the mere question of bread and butter involved. Properly attended to, fuller justice is done to both lawyer and client.

Transmission of documents via telephone wires is possible in principle, but the apparatus required is so expensive that it will never become a practical proposition.

The light would show (if it could harden) Eternities of kitchen garden

If you are as happy in entering the White House as I shall feel on returning to Wheatland, you are a happy man indeed.

The mother of creation is vanity.

I don't have a Wikiquotes page.

You can't start putting difficult clothes on a person. They're actors: they have to move, they have to feel real.

To work without pleasure or affection, to make a product that is not both useful and beautiful, is to dishonor God, nature, the thing that is made, and whomever it is made for.