There is no merit to discipline under ideal circumstances. I must have it in the face of death or it is worthless.

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.

When insecurity starts to rub off on you, you begin to lose a sense of belonging.

The statue of the Laughing Buddha act as a good friend. Whenever we are off the track, his smiling face can bring us back to the present moment, to a positive mood.

Energy even like the Biblical grain of mustard-seed will move mountains.

Mass entertainment in America has been dominated for a long time by the mode of documentary realism.

An almost unnatural vigilance is really required of the citizen because of the horrible rapidity with which human institutions grow old.

Sitting in the morning sun, I'll be sitting when the evening comes

The facts will speak for themselves. Credit them or not, but read!

We must conclude that it is not only a particular political ideology that has failed, but the idea that men and women could ever define themselves in terms that exclude their spiritual needs.

The war on drugs is really the war on people who buy drugs from people who don't lobby the government.