Why is it, I wonder, that anyone who displays superior athletic ability is an object of admiration to his classmates, while one who displays superior mental ability is an object of hatred?

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.

Maybe love and pain are synonyms.

Chip, I know you don't understand this, but I'd take it as a personal favor if you'd stop trying to marry your mother off to my brothers.

What is the mass of a feeling? What is its wavelength, its position on the electromagnetic spectrum?

It is astonishing what you can do when you have a lot of energy, ambition and plenty of ignorance.

What I feel bad about is not having published very much in the last few years.

A guy like myself wants to make a play and be the difference, but the thing is I have to keep saying to myself to just do what I can.

We all want to play great music all the time, but if that is not possible, you have to hit as many right notes as you can.

The sense of duty pursues us ever.

Anecdotes, personal stories, reminiscences, like biblical parables, are the medium through which faith is restored. Stories are a form of poetry, and give us a saving image to personally relate to.

I realize what you can do when you scare the population and how media contributes to that.