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.

There is nothing so eternally adhesive as the memory of power.

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.

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 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.

We all come out from Gogol's 'Overcoat'.

Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life.

My dentist said to me the other day: I've enough problems in my life, so why should I see your films?

The love of God invades me, the peace of God pervades me, the will of God persuades me, and I am wholly His.

Through my satire I make little people so big that afterwards they are worthy objects of my satire and no one can reproach me any longer.

Music is indeed the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

Just as we need the courage to be happy, we also need the courage to live simply.

Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.

There is going to be enormous amounts of resistance to the adoption of bitcoin, but I really believe that it's about the most peaceful revolution that we can have in this world.

Not everyone likes the stable, gradual rise of our country. There are some who are using the democratic ideology to interfere in our internal affairs.