Many a prophecy, by the mere force of its being believed, is transmuted to fact.

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.

With their mother lying in a coma twenty miles away, they clung together drunkenly and wept for the loss of their father.

Hope sees the invisible feels the intangible and achieves the impossible.

In life, you don't have a level of confrontation and the nonsense you run into when you're a CEO. CEOs aren't born.

One of the things that kept me out of trouble was doing something creative - creativity can't be judged.

I don't know the politics of Hollywood. Am I hungry for great material? Every actor is. How I can get to it, that's another story.

I'm not concerned about weapons of mass destruction.

I want to show audiences I can act.

There are very deep and restrictive principles that determine the nature of human language and are rooted in the specific character of the human mind

Your duty is to be, and not to be this or that. I Am That I Am sums up the whole truth; the method is summarized in Be Still.

I don't want to end my career and then start something. I like to do something while my career is still hot and I've always enjoyed designing.