“I have two passions in my life. One is to raise the awareness of the internment of Japanese-American citizens. My other passion is the theater.”

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.

There are a lot of different ways to talk about mindfulness, but what it really means is awareness.

To see the preciousness of all things, we must bring our full attention to life.

Full wise is he that can himself know.

I think artists are aware that talking gives a songwriter so much material. If they just tell us what’s happening, it’s so much easier for us to write a song that’s specific to them.

Be aware of the judgments that you and others conjure. The words reflect the inner world; the doctrines that you sponsor.

I’ve been made painfully aware of the difference in the day-to-day reality I’ve grown up and continue to live in.

But the real hope comes from the people. And it all starts with awareness.

I had become aware, as early as my college days, that no opinion, however absurd and incredible can be imagined, that has not been held by one of the philosophers.