The Star Trek series has had some profound wisdom thru the years. Here is only a small sampling. "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." —The Cage, Stardate Unknown, Original air date: February 1965. "You may find that having is not so pleasing a thing as wanting. This is not logical, but it is often true." —Amok Time, Stardate: 3372.7, Original Airdate: 15 Sep, 1967. "Why don't we start with this. A critical analysis isn't necessarily the best response to a gift." —In Theory, Stardate: 44932.3, Original Airdate: 3 Jun, 1991. "Live now; make now always the most precious time. Now will never come again." —The Inner Light, Stardate: 45944.1, Original Airdate: 1 Jun, 1992. "Sometimes a feeling is all we humans have to go on." —A Taste of Armageddon, Stardate: 3192.1, Original Airdate: 23 Feb, 1967. "With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censored, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably." —The Drumhead, Stardate: 44769.2, Original Airdate: 29 Apr, 1991. "The prejudices people feel about each other disappear when they get to know each other." —Elaan of Troyius, Stardate: 4372.5, Original Airdate: 20 Dec, 1968. "If we're going to be damned, let's be damned for what we really are." —Encounter at Farpoint, Stardate: 41153.7, Original Airdate: 28 Sep, 1987. "They used to say that if Man was meant to fly, he'd have wings. But he did fly. He discovered he had to." —Return To Tomorrow, Stardate: 4768.3, Original Airdate: 9 Feb, 1968. "Humans do have an amazing capacity for believing what they choose—and excluding that which is painful." —And The Children Shall Lead, Stardate: 5029.5, Original Airdate: 11 Oct, 1968. "When a child is taught, it's programmed with simple instructions, and at some point, if its mind develops properly, it exceeds the sum of what it was taught, thinks independently." —The Ultimate Computer, Stardate: 4729.4, Original Airdate: 8 Mar, 1968. "Leave bigotry in your quarters; there's no room for it on the bridge." —Balance of Terror, Stardate: 1709.2, Original Airdate: 15 Dec, 1966. "In critical moments, men sometimes see exactly what they wish to see." —The Tholian Web, Stardate: 5693.2, Original Airdate: 15 Nov, 1968. "Compassion: that's the one things no machine ever had. Maybe it's the one thing that keeps men ahead of them." —The Ultimate Computer, Stardate: 4729.4, Original Airdate: 8 Mar, 1968. "Change is the essential process of all existence." —Let That Be Your Last Battlefield, Stardate: 5730.2, Original Airdate: 10 Jan, 1969. "Without followers, evil cannot spread." —And The Children Shall Lead, Stardate: 5029.5, Original Airdate: 11 Oct, 1968. "I speak of rights! A machine has none; a man must. If you do not grant him that right, you have brought us down to the level of the machine; indeed, you have elevated that machine above us!" —Court Martial, Stardate: 2947.3, Original Airdate: 2 Feb, 1967. "To all mankind—may we never find space so vast, planets so cold, heart and mind so empty that we cannot fill them with love and warmth." —Dagger Of The Mind, Stardate: 2715.1, Original Airdate: 3 Nov, 1966. "Human beings do not survive on bread alone but on the nourishments of liberty. For what indeed is a man without freedom... naught but a mechanism, trapped in the cogwheels of eternity." —I, Mudd, Stardate: 4513.3, Original Airdate: 3 Nov, 1967. "We prefer to help ourselves. We make mistakes, but we're human—and maybe that's the word that best explains us." —I, Mudd, Stardate: 4513.3, Original Airdate: 3 Nov, 1967. "It's hard to believe that something which is neither seen nor felt can do so much harm." "That's true. But an idea can't be seen or felt." —The Cloud Minders, Stardate: 5818.4, Original Airdate: 28 Feb, 1969. "Without freedom of choice there is no creativity." —The Return of The Archons, Stardate: 3156.2, Original Airdate: 9 Feb, 1967. "I object to intellect without discipline; I object to power without constructive purpose." —The Squire of Gothos, Stardate: 2124.5, Original Airdate: 12 Jan, 1967. "Now, I don't pretend to tell you how to find happiness and love, when every day is a struggle to survive. But I do insist that you do survive, because the days and the years ahead are worth living for!" —The City on the Edge of Forever, Stardate: 3134.0, Original Airdate: 6 Apr, 1967.
