You know, when a man is raped you never hear about what he was wearing.

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.

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.

A heroic act is not always followed by glory and parades and forever freedom, ” she said. “It’s often small, disregarded, or forgotten. But it matters.

Why... is human desire so unsatisfying?

Both the art of intuition and the science of analytics have the role to play in making wise decisions.

The great paradox of the 21st century is that, in this age of powerful technology, the biggest problems we face internationally are problems of the human soul.

I grew up doing musicals. I've done so many musicals in my life, I kind of got them out of my system. But, I certainly would be open to them. Rocky Horror Show is a big favorite of mine.

There's a certain attitude to Los Angeles.

I've never wanted to be anything but a gymnast. Maybe it is dangerous-but when you start thinking about danger, you might as well give up.

Looking natural takes so long! If you look at the runways, the look for models is predominantly natural, isn't it?

This is a place for ordinary human compassion of the kind that is reconciling.

Ciao," I say casually, and flick my hair back. "Si. Ciao." I could so be Italian. Except I might have to learn a few more words.