We must remind ourselves that an assault on any one of our liberties and freedoms is an assault on all.

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.

I will love you with too many commas, but never any asterisks.

Reading feeds the soul, writing nourishes it!

Realize that your gift does not only belong to you

Confidence is the foundation of friendship. If we give it we will receive it.

I want to go behind the scenes as well as on screen. I think you have to make your own destiny in this world.

I have always felt that it was important that everyone who was a worker join a labor organization.

For the shallow delights of matrimony and opera I have no courage.

The blame for the 9/11 attacks lays squarely and exclusively with the Al-Qaeda network.

I may have said the same thing before... but my explanation, I am sure, will always be different.

To the modern spirit nothing is, or can be rightly known, except relatively and under conditions.