Canadian actor William Shatner, 88, is best known for playing Captain Kirk in Star Trek. He lives in California and is divorcing his fourth wife, Elizabeth, to whom he was married for 18 years. He has three daughters, Leslie, 61, Lisabeth, 59, and Melanie, 55.

Blunder on and hope for the best!

I was born and brought up in Montreal but, when I was about 12, my parents sent me to a summer camp in the countryside. On the first night, I was sitting on a log as the sun set and the stars came out and I felt for the first time that I was really seeing the heavens in all their glory.

I looked and looked and leaned back so far that I fell off the log. Seeing those stars and wondering what they were and how they got there sparked my fascination with space and an ongoing interest in all the unexplained mysteries of the world.

As I got older, I began to understand how little we know about everything: love, friendship, the need for human contact, what we're here for, life after death . . . I realised that no one has answers to these questions. Instead, most people simply have opinions, and that means we should be sceptical about anyone who tells us: 'I know the way and you don't.'

Canadian actor William Shatner, 88, is best known for playing Captain Kirk in Star Trek. he lives in California and is divorcing his fourth wife, elizabeth, to whom he was married for 18 years. he has three daughters, Leslie, 61, Lisabeth, 59, and Melanie, 55

So I'll listen to anyone, from the Dalai Lama to the homeless man in the street, but I won't be overawed by anyone else's opinion. In a sense, throughout my life, I've been following Captain Kirk's mantra 'to boldly go'. Now, I'm trying to go as boldly as I can until I can't go any more. I find the energy because I'm motivated by curiosity. If something interests me, I'll do it. That's why working on the TV series The UnXplained appealed to me — I'm fascinated by these mysteries.

And our lives should be passionate. I live for it. If we didn't have passion in our lives we'd be half-dead!

I'll keep blundering on and hoping for the best. That's the way we all conduct our lives, even though we're under the impression we've got some kind of control. None of us knows what's going to happen with our next breath. People think they've got their life in tune and then they step off the kerb and get hit by a car.

But we do our best to plan, and to fulfil ourselves. Embrace your life, embrace your story, and take what you can from what's been given to you — but remember, it's just the way life has happened to be.