Social media is like ancient Egypt: writing things on walls and worshiping cats.

I'm a preservationist, I believe in preserving history intact, but I also enjoy the technological advances which have been made.

If leadership requires a fired-up sense of purpose and imagination, it also demands a profound connection to the society to be led.

STAR TREK is a show that had a vision about a future that was positive.

We have the history of slavery or inequality to women, and now the civil rights movement of the 21st century is the struggle for equality for the gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgender people. And I think it's important for Americans to know about the times that we failed.

As the old saying goes, I was simply looking for fan love, in Alderaan places.

And it seems to me important for a country, for a nation to certainly know about its glorious achievements but also to know where its ideals failed, in order to keep that from happening again.