Star Trek is perhaps the best thing that ever happened to me, in a career sense.

You see, I was the son of a baptist minister.

The most important influence in my childhood was my father.

I ran around with the other youngsters, hunting, fishing and raising tadpoles and all the rest.

I have deep feelings for the welfare and comfort of others.

I had fallen in love with California.

I have no aspiration whatsoever to be the next great leading man.

My father started me singing in church.

My ambition is peace and perfection.

I have considered myself a mature actor.

I have been exposed to a great amount of temptation throughout the course of my career.

You couldn't hide from bad things and pretend they didn't exist–that left you with a dream world, and dream worlds eventually crumbled. You had to face the truth. And then decide what you wanted.

The wife of a careless man is almost a widow.

I have an unfortunate personality.

It is not safe in the republican form of government that clannishness should exist either by compulsory or voluntary reason. It is not good for the government and it is not good for the individual.

It's only worth staying in bed if you're young and in good company.

Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg, by the side of which more will be laid.

You can't get your head around something if you're yelling.

I grew up in a family of people who were obsessed with fashion.

I will love you until the day they put me in the earth.

To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude.