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

It isn't all over; everything has not been invented; the human adventure is just beginning.

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

If this is your God, he's not very impressive. He has so many psychological problems; he's so insecure. He demands worship every seven days. He goes out and creates faulty humans and then blames them for his own mistakes. He's a pretty poor excuse for a Supreme Being.

We stress humanity, and this is done at considerable cost. We can't have a lot of dramatics that other shows get away with - promiscuity, greed, jealousy. None of those have a place in 'Star Trek.'

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.

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.