There is no more desire to live past one's time than to die before it.

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.

Education enhances the power and beauty of experience.

Believe in yourself even when others doubt your capabilities.

I would like to become the prime minister, do the job for two years, and then leave and devote myself to public work.

Anyone who thinks the pen is mightier than the sword has not been stabbed with both.

I went to school on the Internet. I was not a cheerleader.

Confidence and hope do more good than physic.

Nearly all the wisdom we possess, that is to say, true and sound wisdom, consists of two parts: the knowledge of God and of ourselves.

Exile is terrible to those who have, as it were, a circumscribed habitation; but not to those who look upon the whole globe but as one city.

The devil has never found a better tool in the history of the world to destroy the happiness of human beings than liquor.

Willpower and desire, when properly combined, make an irresistible pair.