If leadership requires a fired-up sense of purpose and imagination, it also demands a profound connection to the society to be led.

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.

Tears are God's way of cleansing the heart.

History is the collective consciousness of the then intellectuals and not just some numbers, time and events.

The world neither ever saw, nor ever will see, a perfectly fair lottery.

I think the idea that people walk around to music is very interesting. They are actually creating the soundtrack to their lives as they walk around to it.

By the time the traditionally male lexicographers become interested in looking at fashion words, their origins are lost in the mists of time.

Getting an award on Top Gear is better than getting a Grammy.

Do the hardest thing on earth for you. ACT YOURSELF.

Let there be spaces in your togetherness

I've found men are less likely to let petty things annoy them.

I mean, technology is amoral. It has no morality.