“It’s really hard to hate someone for being different when you’re too busy laughing together.”

Well, it gives, certainly to my father, who is the one that suffered the most in our family, and understanding of how the ideals of a country are only as good as the people who give it flesh and blood.

Do your duty as an American, and as a citizen of the galaxy… Vote!

To do theater you need to block off a hunk of time.

Should any terrorist strike or act of war occur in which American lives are lost, we must be on guard for any attempt by the government to turn that tragedy into justification for sweeping action.

But when we came out of camp, that’s when I first realized that being in camp, that being Japanese-American, was something shameful.

Plays close, movies wrap and TV series eventually get cancelled, and we were cancelled in three season.

Unfriending me when I didn’t even know we were friends? It’s like breaking wind when you’re home alone. If I can’t smell you, knock yourself out.

I’m a preservationist, I believe in preserving history intact, but I also enjoy the technological advances which have been made.

Nothing is what it seems on the surface of Heroes.

My memories of camp – I was four years old to eight years old – they’re fond memories.

We need to take our passion and effect real change at the local, state, and federal levels, to help elect progressive leaders, and to stem the tide of division, fear and scapegoating.

Today we have the economic collapse that the whole planet is suffering, but there is hope, and that’s what’s going to keep us moving ahead.

Yes, I remember the barbed wire and the guard towers and the machine guns, but they became part of my normal landscape. What would be abnormal in normal times became my normality in camp.

I’ve run the marathon several times, so I definitely don’t look like the Great Ancestor!

If leadership requires a fired-up sense of purpose and imagination, it also demands a profound connection to the society to be led.

The starship Enterprise was a metaphor starship Earth, and the vision was that the strength of this starship lay in its diversity.

Every Christian needs a half-hour of prayer each day, except when he is busy, then he needs an hour.

Day by day, case by case, the Supreme Court is busy designing a Constitution for a country I do not recognize.

Half an hour’s meditation each day is essential, except when you are busy. Then a full hour is needed.

A busy, vibrant, goal-oriented woman is so much more attractive than a woman who waits around for a man to validate her existence.

The world has been busy for some centuries in shutting and locking every door through which a woman could step into wealth, except the door of marriage.

While I am busy with little things, I am not required to do greater things.

Only after the Last Judgment will Mary get any rest; from now until then, she is much too busy with her children.

Being busy is a form of laziness – lazy thinking and indiscriminate action. Being busy is most often used as a guise for avoiding the few critically important but uncomfortable actions.