When I was a very young actor, I cruised around in a pretty cool vehicle called the Starship Enterprise.

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.

In terms of doing things I take a fairly scientific approach to why things happen and how they happen. I don't know if there's a god or not...

The sound of the blades on the ice in the morning is like smelling fresh coffee.

A million faces at my feet but all I see are dark eyes.

I have to ask myself, Am I content with calling myself a feminist? Yes, because I speak out.

The more worrying feature of the new global corporate structures is their capacity to devastate national labour markets by transferring their operations to cheaper locations overseas.

With thee conversing I forget all time.

With age, comfort becomes more seductive than beauty.

Securing the border is priority number one.

You are not here to try to get the world to be just as you want it. You are here to create the world around you that you choose.

The flaw in, say, austerity, is that its success is predicated on the relative exactitude of math rather than the shifting, liquid imperfection of peoples lives.