Our differences in beliefs do not truly separate us, or elevate us over others. Rather, they highlight the rich tapestry that is humanity.

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.

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.

We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.

If success is a miracle then you must be the miracle worker

Sing a Song before you can't Sing some Song ~

For me, the best journalism is usually the best storytelling, and the best stories are those of real people.

If you want to be your own master ... always be surprised by evil; never anticipate it.

Animals teach us about the animals in ourselves. We need their spirits.

Even when there's pressure and distractions and expectations from others or myself, it's a good thing. It just makes me a better person. It makes me stronger.

In a land of freedom we are held hostage by the tyranny of political correctness.

Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm & constant.

Nature, as it grows again toward earth, is fashioned for the journey, dull and heavy.