“Wait-a-minute!Reality kicked in after marking its spot `position vacant for the short and pleasant while. He groaned mournfully as he found himself staring at the inside of his own eyelids. The fir...”

“In the process of helping others, I helped myself. In acting out of my own brokeness I became whole again. It's the kind of strength and determination you find when you have hit rock bottom and you...”

“The universe is so vast, so immense, we can never expect to explore it all. It is in effect, not so much a final frontier as an ultimate frontier; the ultimate frontier as wide as it is deep. Star...”

“It is interesting indeed that some people think they are right to force others into believing what they believe.”

“Ex Fleet man?He was a full Commander, last I heard, sir.Interesting. Falconer commented. Get me his specs. If I have to take him aboard my ship, I want to know all about him. She swallowed. Yes sir...”

“Apathy.The reason you may wake up one day being not only a 2nd class citizen, but a criminal because of who you are - and then wonder why 'somebody' didn't do something when there was still time?”

“The only calibration that counts is how much heart people invest, how much they ignore their fears of being hurt or caught out or humiliated. And the only thing people regret is that they didn't li...”

“I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.”

“Fear is all in the mind”

“You cannot give out one frequency, that of disrespect, and expect respect to flow toward you. Neither can you hold on to your biases, prejudices, and negative thinking toward something, and expect ...”

“You have had many successes, and you have earned the right to be respected.”

“Better to have the trust of the people than their respect. With trust, their respect could be earned later; without it, respect could never be deserved, and so to have it would be like poison.”