“My father once told me that American democracy is a peoples democracy at heart, and that it therefore can be as great as the American people, or as fallible. It depends on all of us. But our system...”

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

“One of the gifts of 'Star Trek' is my professional work colleagues have become my lifelong friends.”

“Gene Roddenberry continually reminded us that the Star Trek Enterprise was a metaphor for starship Earth. And the strength in this starship came from its diversity, coming together and working in c...”

“'Star Trek' is about acceptance, and the strength of the Starship Enterprise is that it embraces diversity in all its forms.”

“As my audience grew more diverse, I started interjecting social justice advocacy and commentaries about LGBT equality, and it just kept growing more.”

“We can learn to work and speak when we are afraid in the same way we have learned to work and speak when we are tired.”

“If we feel inwardly strong, we will have no need or desire to speak ill of others.”

“My problem is I say what I'm thinking before I think what I'm saying.”

“Saturday night is perfect for writers because other people have "plans.”

“Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.”

“I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”

“I shiver, thinking how easy it is to be totally wrong about people-to see one tiny part of them and confuse it for the whole, to see the cause and think it's the effect or vice versa”

“At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear.”

“I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.”