There is no Master but the Master, ” he said, “and QT-1 is his prophet.

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

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.

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.

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.

If you truly believe something you will attempt to live it. Otherwise you don’t really believe it.

It is only in marriage with the world that our ideals can bear fruit divorced from it they remain barren.

In high school, I worked eight hours a day just so I could get into the college of my dreams and say that I got in - and I never went.

God is preparing his heroes; and when the opportunity comes, he can fit them into their places in a moment, and the world will wonder where they came from.

Come, my best Friends! my Books! and lead me on.

Just as the DNA is a structure of double helical bonds, so your being is a structure of elements, not physical elements, but awarenesses that have come together in a ring of power.

Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.

I'm an all-things-in-moderation kind of person. I do eat a warm donut occasionally. I especially enjoy a cider donut when I'm apple picking. I don't think there's anything wrong with that.

If you stay true to what you believe in, and if you're creating something great and authentic, your fans will stick with you no matter how much other things change!