Night will always be a time of fear and insecurity, and the heart will sink with the sun.

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.

The forces of rotation caused red hot masses of stones to be torn away from the Earth and to be thrown into the ether, and this is the origin of the stars.

We've become obsessed with beauty and the fountain of youth and, frankly, I'm really saddened by the way women mutilate their faces today in search of that.

You can't make a cloudy day a sunny day, but can embrace it and decide it's going to be a good day after all.

I have masturbated myself out of serious problems in my life.

When people are right with God, they are apt to be hard on themselves and easy on other people. But when they are not right with God, they are easy on themselves and hard on others.

Make each day count by setting specific goals to succeed, then putting forth every effort to exceed your own expectations.

The asymmetries of power that have shaped relations between the West and the rest of the world also exist in the realm of literary criticism.

I want to be the black Madonna.

Life is not accumulation, it is about contribution.

I went drinking with Gray Powell and all I got was a lousy iPhone prototype.