The good life is one that's artistically made.

I envy the people who say, 'oh, well, I've got my name in the golden book and I'm going to be entered into the pearly gates.'

I also derive a great deal of pleasure from horses and dogs... the ocean... and love.

One of the advantages of being a captain is being able to ask for advice without necessarily having to take it.

You have to create your life. You have to carve it, like a sculpture.

If you read my books, especially the Star Trek books and the Quest for Tomorrow books, you'll see in them the core theme of the basic humanistic questions that Star Trek asked.

Although I'm a business major out of McGill University, I know nothing... but then I found out much later in life, nobody knows anything.