Gene Roddenberry

"The greatest danger facing us is ourselves - our irrational fear of the unknown. But there's no such thing as the unknown. Only things temporarily hidden, temporarily not understood."

"The strength of a civilization is not measured by its ability to fight wars, but rather by its ability to prevent them."

"A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away."

"I think God is as much a basic ingredient in the universe as neutrons and positrons . . . God is, for lack of a better term, clout. This is the prime force, when we look around the universe."

"I do not belong to any church, but I do consider myself a religious man...part of the creative and intelligence behind life. Therefore, if we are part of God than our lives are not brief meaningless t…"

"I think I’ve gone through quite an ordinary series of steps in life. I began as most children began, with God and Santa Claus and the tooth fairy and the Easter Bunny all being about the same thing. T…"

"No one could know Serling, or view or read his work, without recognizing his deep affection for humanity, his sympathetically enthusiastic curiosity about us, and his determination to enlarge our hori…"

"Rodenberry at The Museum of Broadcast Communication"