To be different is not necessarily to be ugly; to have a different idea is not necessarily to be wrong. The worst possible thing is for all of us to begin to look and talk and act and think alike.

A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away.

For most people, religion is nothing more than a substitute for a malfunctioning brain.

Star Trek was an attempt to say that humanity will reach maturity and wisdom on the day that it begins not just to tolerate, but take a special delight in differences in ideas and differences in life forms.

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

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

The glory of creation is in its infinite diversity.