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

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

The only thing worse than human ignorance is human pride in that ignorance.

But when we came out of camp, that's when I first realized that being in camp, that being Japanese-American, was something shameful.

You know, when a man is raped you never hear about what he was wearing.

The theatre for me is much more satisfying as an actor because you are working in front of a living, breathing, throbbing, gasping, laughing and hopefully applauding audience. And the immediate connection you get with that audience is very satisfying.

To me, the amazing thing is that so much that was science fiction back then, political fiction, today is reality. We have indeed a spacecraft called an international space station. And we have the diversity of this planet working on that ship, including Americans and Russians working side by side. I think the imagineers are the ones that set the goal. And the inventors and the technicians see that as a goal to work toward, or the political scientists and the diplomats. And eventually, that's arrived at.