There is no one so insufferable as a person who gives no other excuse for a peculiar action than saying he had been directed to it in a dream.

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.

Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.

I never won anything by myself. I was always strong because of help that gave me extra strength to win.

Anyone can have a good day. The question is what do you do on a bad day. That's when you're being tested. In a very tangible sense, a bad day shows your innermost essence more than a good day.

Christ demands first place. There's no room on the throne of your heart for two gods.

Worse still is that mankind - the non-Jewish world - learned nothing from the Holocaust: The event which had no precedent in history, which should be equal to the Revelation at Sinai in significance.

[Human beings] will begin to recover the moment we take art as seriously as physics, chemistry or money.

I know no other sign of superiority than Goodness.

What's the point? you can bring in 50 witnesses and it would not change what the tape clearly shows.

The cosmic calendar is quite a fertile mode for communicating how small we are over time and space.

Deadwood was one of the most amazing experiences Ive ever had. I just loved that show.