The temptation was great to muster what force we could and put up a fight. It's the easiest way out, and the most satisfactory to self-respect--but, nearly invariably, the stupidest.

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.

grappling with some small understanding of this place, this time, we're in" my poem "In a BishopsWood Clearing

We have two kinds of morality side by side: one which we preach but do not practice and the other which we practice but seldom preach.

If your child's gonna be a star it's going to happen and just let it happen.

I swim in a shaft of light, upside down, and I can see myself clearly, through and through, from every angle. Perhaps I stand on the brink of a great discovery.

Many of the greatest men have owed their success to industry rather than to cleverness.

You know how people say awards don't mean anything? Hello! I think the energy around them makes everyone cuckoo.

I'm curious how people build up the codes that they live their life by, and how they come to think that that's the best way for them to function.

People in communion liberate each other.

Always laugh off a slight insult, so that people will understand what it means when you're not laughing.

A lot of the buildings [in Toronto] around Yonge and Bloor is the architectural equivalent of Kipper Ties and 8" collar points. It's ghastly and no amount of street-level retail glitz can lift it.