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.

- William Shatner

With three kids, it was always very, very tight, and it was always a scramble for what was my next job. So I learned never to go into debt because I don't want those monthly payments to preoccupy my thoughts.

- William Shatner

Divorce is probably as painful as death.

- William Shatner

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

- William Shatner

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

- William Shatner

You need to be silly to be funny.

- William Shatner

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

- William Shatner

I'm gonna reveal something to you that's going to come as a shock: If you're a stupid young man, you're usually a stupid old man. Most people, including myself, keep repeating the same mistakes.

- William Shatner

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.

- William Shatner

I'm surfing the giant life wave.

- William Shatner

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

- William Shatner

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

- William Shatner

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

- William Shatner

I often conduct interviews in my truck.

- William Shatner

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

- William Shatner

The basic quality that any great story must have is a story that illustrates the human condition.

- William Shatner

You and I and everybody in show business and the entertainment industry fly by the seat of our pants. We don't know quite what is going to happen.

- William Shatner

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

- William Shatner

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.

- William Shatner

Over the years, I've become barraged by comments from people, such as, 'Beam me up, Scotty!' and I became defensive. I felt they were derisive and engendered an attitude. I am grateful for the success, but didn't want to be mocked.

- William Shatner