There is nothing frightening about an eternal dreamless sleep. Surely it is better than eternal torment in Hell and eternal boredom in Heaven.

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.

The poor love life as passionately as the rich do. Perhaps more, for the effort it takes to cling to it.

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

The natural state of man is to want to be free. To have opportunities. To have choices.

I've been able to work with great directors in Israel.

I want to be one of the artists in the cathedral on the great plain. I want to make a dragon's head, an angel, a devil - or perhaps a saint - out of stone.

We are all capable of greater things than we realize.

We have to keep letting go, and slowly and surely the great full life of God will invade us in every part, and men will take knowledge of us that we have been with Jesus.

Did you know that Mozart had no arms and no legs? I've seen statues of him on people's pianos.

Art needs no spur beyond itself.

Like, Jay Z has some of the sickest lyrics ever, but I would never buy his CD, just because of my age and because of his age. By the time I turn that old, I ain't gonna be doing what he's doing.