It’s really hard to hate someone for being different when you’re too busy laughing together.

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.

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.

I'll never forget how the depression and loneliness felt good and bad at the same time. Still does.

Some there be that shadow kiss

Own your mistakes. Even when you’re in the process ofscrewing up.

So, as one sees, I by no means deprive my world of stubborn reality, if I merely call it a world of ideas.

A classification is a definition comprising a system of definitions.

Women who are either indisputably beautiful, or indisputably ugly, are best flattered upon the score of their understandings.

Why does a literary scholar study the world of "fiction"? To show us that the facts can never be understood except in communion with the imagination.

Bhakti cannot be attained, it is a gift.

Are there not millions of us who would rather go sleeping to hell; than sweating to heaven?

So I went to the Chinese restaurant and this duck came up to me with a red rose and says "Your eyes sparkle like diamonds". I said "Waiter, I asked for a-ROMATIC duck".