I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.

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 don't admire the person who hides from the world and claims enlightenment. To be purified you have to be tested and there is no better test of strength than dealing with other people.

Yes. I appreciate the helpful and long spreadsheet with all the many places you can't go.

Ambition is enthusiasm with a purpose.

I always believed that when you follow your heart or your gut, when you really follow the things that feel great to you, you can never lose, because settling is the worst feeling in the world.

A child of five, if properly instructed, can, as truly believe, and be regenerated, as an adult.

I started to realize, a lot of times if you go into your memory, your sense memory, you know more than you think you do, from having watched and listened.

We don't have as many managers as we should, but we would rather have too few than too many.

Our ordinary language has no means for describing a particular shade of color. Thus it is incapable of producing a picture of this color.

Your life is a work of art, a craft to be carefully mastered. For patience has replaced time, and you are your own destination.

The yoga tradition addresses how to live and how to shape your life with a commanding sense of purpose, capacity and meaning.