You are never too old to learn more than you already know and to become able to do more than you already can.

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.

Be happy by forgiving or forgetting or doing both, but we can gain no happiness by holding grudges.

The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you can't understand them. The best sentence? The shortest.

I try changing my surfing, which is the absolute worst thing you can do. Everyone surfs their own way. If I try to surf like someone else I look like a dork.

No other island received as much preliminary pounding as did Iwo Jima.

When the rest of the congregation rose at the entrance of the choir he kept his seat. He argued that rising to one's feet at such a time tended to make the choir-boys conceited.

We only get together when there's a good reason. Like, last summer, we didn't really intend to go out, but we thought the B-52's tour was a good opportunity.

On GOP Tax Cuts: They'll take food out of the mouths of children to give tax cuts to the wealthiest.

Everybody agrees that whatever the solutions are to the big problems, they ... can never be without some element of education.

Each of us has heaven and hell in him.

God is your very being. So the first thing is, don't think about enlightenment as a goal.