I'm an optimist.

My dad died of a stroke.

Tabloid stuff just offends.

I can't type. Can't do it.

I'm just quizzical about how things work and why things are.

There's too many people in the world.

I didn't want to do the sitcom thing, but I didn't know what else to do.

I believe in taking what happens as inevitable.

I love living in Los Angeles.

Gradually the live TV scene simmered out, replaced by film, and that took place in L.A. So many actors left New York.

If I'm given an opportunity to do something, I do it. Or else I fool around with it.

It's very easy to say no to leaving the house.

The only subject I know anything about is myself and I don't know that too clearly.

My site has the whole thing - blogs, information, video interviews.

When there are tiers of meaning in an ad it intrigues the audience and they look for it again and again.

Ads need to be little pieces of entertainment.

Death is an absolute marvel.

Things people say strike me as amusing, and I am prone to saying out loud what everybody's thinking.

Fate gives you the finger and you accept.

I thought I was loved.

I did a movie in Esperanto.

I played comedies and dramas.

When I direct and have to look at filmed scenes of myself, I suck.

So many dot-com companies were formulated on air.

It's irksome to read about someone I don't recognize. It frightens me.

In my proudest moments, I think I had a real hand in the creative force of making 'Star Trek.' But most of the time, I don't think about it.

Nobody could have imagined the phenomenon that 'Star Trek' became. It's still almost impossible to imagine.

A series is filled with compromises.

Here's something pompous - you take your day and artistically create it, so every moment has an artistic flavor.

I'm looking for the perfect paintball movie.

When I did the film Generations, in which the character died, I felt like a guest for the first time. That made me very sad.

I want peace, and believe it can only be reached through union and war, and I will ever conduct war with a view to perfect an early success.

You people speak so lightly of war; you don't know what you're talking about. War is a terrible thing!

Wars are not all evil, they are part of the grand machinery by which this world is governed.

War's Legitimate Object Is More Perfect Peace.

Some of you young men think that war is all glamour and glory, but let me tell you, boys, it is all hell!

War is cruel and you cannot refine it.

If nominated, I won't run; If elected, I won't serve.

I see every chance of a long, confused and disorganizing civil war, and I feel no desire to take a hand therein.

Though I never ordered it, and never wished for it, I have never shed any tears over the event, because I believe that it hastened what we all fought for, the end of the war.

You might as well appeal against the thunderstorm.

Hold the fort! I am coming!

If nominated by either party, I should peremptorily decline, and even if unanimously elected, I should decline to serve.

The way to success is strategically along the way of least expectation and tactically along the line of least resistance.

Oh, it is all folly, madness, a crime against civilization.

I begin to regard the death and mangling of a couple thousand men as a small affair, a kind of morning dash-and it may be well that we become so hardened.

The only good Indian is a dead Indian

I knew wherever I was that you thought of me, and if I got in a tight place you would come-if alive.

...[We] must stop these swarms of Jews who are trading, bartering and robbing.

We have good corporals and good sergeants and some good lieutenants and captains, and those are far more important than good generals.