Happy Birthday William Shatner!

Regret is the worst human emotion. If you took another road, you might have fallen off a cliff. I'm content.

Wenn das so weitergeht haben wir bald noch jede Menge Trouble mit den Tribbles!

I find the whole time travel question very unsettling if you take it to its logical extension. I think it might eventually be possible, but then what happens?

Mr. Spock, die Frauen auf ihrem Planeten handeln logisch. Nur ist das der einzige Planet in unserer Galaxie wo das so ist.

The conundrum of free will and destiny has always kept me dangling.

Ich bereue nichts. Für mich hat sich alles andere aus der Rolle ergeben.

I believe that when things happen, they happen with a purpose.

Ich bin mit der Magie der Disney-Filme aufgewachsen, die letzten Endes dazu geführt haben, dass ich Schauspieler und Produzent werden wollte. Es war diese lustige kleine Comic-Figur mit den großen, runden Ohren, die in meinen Augen etwas Magisches hatte.

Why does the lizard stick his tongue out? The lizard sticks its tongue out because that's the way its listening and looking and tasting its environment. It's its means of appreciating what's in front of it.

Das ist eine Frage wie 'Haben sie sich die Brüste vergrößern lassen?' oder 'Wann war ihre letzte Lobotomie?

You know, the process of making a documentary is one of discovery, and like writing a story, you follow a lead and that leads you to something else and then by the time you finish, the story is nothing like you expected.

Wir waren praktisch ein und die selbe Person, außer dass Jim fast perfekt war und ich perfekt bin.

No, I don't regret anything at this point. That may change on the next phone call, but at the moment I don't regret anything.

Star Trek ist die beste Science Fiction Serie der Galaxie!

The essence of paint ball is the fact that when you get hit by a ball full of paint, it hurts just enough to say, 'Ow, I gotta get out of the way,' but not enough to say, 'I quit.'

I didn't realize that, in doing a documentary, there is this process of discovery. It's not like a film or a play with a set script. It sort of reveals itself.

We meet aliens every day who have something to give us. They come in the form of people with different opinions.

If saving money is wrong, I don't want to be right!

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

I love the concept of togetherness and the entwinement of marriage.

How do I stay so healthy and boyishly handsome? It's simple. I drink the blood of young runaways.

I sometimes find that in interviews you learn more about yourself than the person learned about you.

This is my saddest story: In grade school, they would have us open our Valentine's cards and read them out loud. I always sent cards to myself because nobody else did.

Writing is truly a creative art - putting word to a blank piece of paper and ending up with a full-fledged story rife with character and plot.

The longer I go about living, I see it's the relationship that is most meaningful.

I frequently dream of being on these horses' backs and running across a field. And the horse and I are one.

Babies have big heads and big eyes, and tiny little bodies with tiny little arms and legs. So did the aliens at Roswell! I rest my case.

Divorce is probably as painful as death.

If you make a fool of yourself, you can do it with dignity, without taking your pants down. And if you do take your pants down, you can still do it with dignity.

Remember - you can't beam through a force field. So, don't try it.

I've been in that angst of loneliness, where you're really alone in the universe, except for the dog.

Energy is the key to creativity. Energy is the key to life.

Star Trek never really caught on with audiences, ran for three seasons, and was canceled. I wish I had taken notes at the time, because you people sure do have a lot of questions about it.

I had assumed that the day we finished shooting Star Trek was the end of my association with Captain Kirk and the Enterprise -- and its crew -- forever. When a Broadway show ends its run it's done forever; the producers burn the scenery and there is no recorded copy of the show. It exists only in memories. But television shows are different; television shows are syndicated, sold to local TV stations, which broadcast them over and over.

Yes, I existed before Star Trek. I started in live television. I was there when the cameras were as big as a table, had internal fans that were whirring and tubes that, because of the heat, had to come right up to our face for a close-up.

I sometimes find that in interviews you learn more about yourself than the person learned about you.

I vaguely knew that these conventions were taking place but ... truthfully, the whole thing made me uncomfortable. I didn't want anything to do with a group of obsessed people who paid to get together -- some of them wearing costumes -- to talk incessantly about a TV show that had been canceled. It wasn't logical.

There's been a great deal of enmity between George [Takei] and me. He's been saying mean things about me for nearly forty years now. That's nearly Star Trek (Two) Generations!... To be fair, George is not the only veteran of the USS Enterprise who has hard feelings. Walter Koenig has been vocal about his disdain for me. James Doohan was not a fan, and Nichelle Nichols told me -- while I was interviewing her for my book Star Trek Memories -- that she detested me. Set phasers to Awkward!

Divorce is simply modern society's version of medieval torture. Except it lasts longer and leaves deeper scars.

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

I am not a Starfleet commander, or T.J. Hooker. I don't live on Starship NCC-1701, or own a phaser. And I don`t know anybody named Bones, Sulu, or Spock. And no, I've never had green alien sex, though I'm sure it would be quite an evening. I speak English and French, not Klingon! I drink Labatt's, not Romulan ale! And when someone says to me 'Live long and prosper', I seriously mean it when I say, 'Get a life'. My doctor's name is not McCoy, it's Ginsberg. And tribbles were puppets, not real animals. PUPPETS! And when I speak, I never, ever talk like every. Word. Is. Its. Own. Sentence. I live in California, but I was raised in Montreal. And yes, I've gone where no man has gone before, but I was in Mexico and her father gave me permission!

I have been, and ever shall be, your fan.

Live long and prosper.