“The only thing worse than human ignorance is human pride in that ignorance.”

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.

There is more story in a minor character like Boba Fett than there is in all the clutter of various vampires in the Twilight franchise.

We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.

Science is a beautiful gift to humanity, we should not distort it. Science does not differentiate between multiple races.

People say I make strange choices, but they’re not strange for me. My sickness is that I’m fascinated by human behavior, by what’s underneath the surface, by the worlds inside people.

I’m really insecure about everything.

Compassion is not religious business, it is human business, it is not luxury, it is essential for our own peace and mental stability, it is essential for human survival.

The only good human being is a dead one.

People will always try to stop you from doing the right thing if it is unconventional.

The Sorrowful Virgin whose pierced heart mourned the death of Jesus now grieves for the sufferings of the crucified poor and for the creatures of this world laid waste by human power.