Why are we now going into space? Well, why did we trouble to look past the next mountain? Our prime obligation to ourselves is to make the unknown known. We are on a journey to keep an appointment with whatever we are.

We have within reach, now, the attainment of almost every dream of mankind.

For Star Trek proves, as faulty as individual episodes could be, is that the much-maligned common man and common woman has an enormous hunger for brotherhood. They are ready for the twenty-third century now, and they are light-years ahead of their petty governments and their visionless leaders.

If man is to survive, he will have learned to take a delight in the essential differences between men and between cultures. He will learn that differences in ideas and attitudes are a delight, part of life's exciting variety, not something to fear.

The strength of a civilization is not measured by its ability to fight wars, but rather by its ability to prevent them.

Art is really people asking the eternal question, "What is it all about?"

Religions vary in their degree of idiocy, but I reject them all.