I think we learn more from those times in our history where we stumbled as a democracy than we learn from the glorious chapters.

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.

It is your eyes that guide me home.

A curious mind enjoys inquiring, experimenting and discovering.

The more we love our friends the less we flatter them it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.

That sanguine expectation of happiness which is happiness itself.

I have been misunderstood more than I've been understood in my life.

I love Don Williams records. And old Ralph Stanley and Bill Monroe.

When the moment comes, will you take your chance to be a hero?

Nothing predicts future behavior as much as past impunity.

What is commonly called literary history is actually a record of choices.

I do love acting. It's my second love and I would love to do more.