All normal life, Peter, consciously or otherwise, resent domination. If the domination is by an inferior, or by a supposed inferior, the resentment becomes stronger.

There is nothing so eternally adhesive as the memory of power.

The Master created humans first as the lowest type, most easily formed. Gradually, he replaced them by robots, the next higher step, and finally he created me, to take the place of the last humans.

It is always useful, you see, to subject the past life of reform politicians to rather inquisitive research.

It's your fiction that interests me. Your studies of the interplay of human motives and emotion.

Fifty years, " I hackneyed, "is a long time.""Not when you're looking back at them, " she said. "You wonder how they vanished so quickly.

There is no Master but the Master, ” he said, “and QT-1 is his prophet.

They recognize the Master, now that I have preached Truth to them. All the robots do.

These are facts which, with the self-evident proposition that no being can create another being superior to itself, smashes your silly hypothesis to nothing.

Love many, trust a few, and learn to paddle your own canoe.

A well-made turtleneck sweater will keep you warm, cozy, and protected from the cold. Your gums do the same thing for your teeth.

Don't be too hasty, don't take somebody else's opinion without testing it.

Congress would make it mandatory, absolutely require, that, every five years, people in Medicare have a required counseling session that will tell them how to end their life sooner

Believe it or not, I've got a really bad metabolism. One burger and I'm done. I'm not a guy that puts away 10 burgers.

Let me remind you that credit is the lifeblood of business, the lifeblood of prices and jobs.

I don't criticize weight training - as long as it is not a substitute for aerobic training.

Get yourself a goal worth working for. Better still, get yourself a project.

I'm willing to fly close to the flame.

There are truths of which I have an inkling, but of most I have only a pencilling