Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

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.

There are pearls in the deepest fathoms of the Self, but to get them you will have to go through unimaginable perils.

Exceed, succeed, outdo, overdo, all with a smile.

Maybe I am not French, maybe I am from nowhere.

I love 'The Stand;' I read it when I was a kid - it was one of my favorite books when I was growing up. I love Stephen King; I think he's a remarkable writer.

Unless you have read and absorbed the best that can be read and absorbed, you will not think clearly or well.

When thoughts tell you it’s too late, dismiss them. You haven’t dreamed your best dream. You haven’t run your best race.

Music's been part of my entire life. It's in my DNA.

It is not what you do. It is that you do.

We approach a condition in which we shall be amoral without the capacity to perceive it and degraded without the means to measure our descent.

"Failure" isn't a word I really use. I am a very resilient person; I bounce back extremely fast, and I believe in myself and my talent as an artist.