A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. [The Second Law of Robotics]

People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent.

So the universe is not quite as you thought it was. You'd better rearrange your beliefs, then. Because you certainly can't rearrange the universe.

In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.

People think of education as something that they can finish.

There are no nations! There is only humanity. And if we don't come to understand that right soon, there will be no nations, because there will be no humanity.

A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.

I decided to throw out everything I thought I knew about following Christ, being a woman, being a godly wife, masculinity, and marriage.

I read many things. I read to fill in my knowledge of the world.

For me, there is only love and fear.

Would a real man get caught eating a twinkie?

I'm appalled at how many people my age, or even five or ten years younger, have no tangible memories of important history that happened when we were growing up.

The family is the great catechism God has given the world. The work of our lifetime is to learn how to read it and then study it prayerfully.

[My mother tongue is] Albanian. But, I am equally fluent in Bengali (language of Calcutta) and English.

Knock the 't' off the 'can't.'

Bless people when they revile you. Think how much good they are doing by helping to stamp out the false ego.

I'm hard of hearing. I miss a lot. It's really tough.