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 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.

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.

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.

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.

Maybe this was how you stayed sane in wartime: a handful of noble deeds amid the chaos.

Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill never own it to yourself. Illess is one of those things which a man should resist on principle at the onset.

All is disgust when one leaves his own nature and does things that misfit it.

Even in the hardest circumstances, dreams can give you the courage to live, and I hope I can share that message with children in need.

The emphasis on practice is because it is the only time in your life you can steer your karmic situation.

I was a neophyte in another world [in 1954].

I have fake eye lashes on and they feel like tarantulas. But they're not real tarantulas.

Beautiful people are forgiven more often than the rest.

Failure changes for the better, success for the worse.

I raced locally for a year, went to Europe the year after and went to the Olympics the year after that.