It's your fiction that interests me. Your studies of the interplay of human motives and emotion.

There is nothing so eternally adhesive as the memory of power.

The Master created humans first as the lowest type, most easily formed. Gradually, he replaced them by robots, the next higher step, and finally he created me, to take the place of the last humans.

All normal life, Peter, consciously or otherwise, resent domination. If the domination is by an inferior, or by a supposed inferior, the resentment becomes stronger.

It is always useful, you see, to subject the past life of reform politicians to rather inquisitive research.

Fifty years, " I hackneyed, "is a long time.""Not when you're looking back at them, " she said. "You wonder how they vanished so quickly.

There is no Master but the Master, ” he said, “and QT-1 is his prophet.

They recognize the Master, now that I have preached Truth to them. All the robots do.

These are facts which, with the self-evident proposition that no being can create another being superior to itself, smashes your silly hypothesis to nothing.

You know what people are doing on the other side of the world, what’s happening on another planet, but not what’s going on inside the person next to you.

All ideas come about through some sort of observation. It sparks an attitude some object or emotion causes a reaction in the other person.

I don't think opposites attract. I think like attracts like. So I don't think that they do attract, opposites. Only when you're talking about magnetic poles.

Once you abstract from this, once you generalize and postulate Universals, you have departed from the creative reality, and entered the realm of static fixity, mechanism, materialism.

And gladly wolde he lerne, and gladly teche.

Man's objection to love is that it dies hard: women's, that when it is dead it stays dead.

The Christian life is what you do when you realize that you can do nothing.

We're a nation of liars. But I mean that in the kindest sense.

One great love in a single lifetime was enough for anyone.

If you attempt to implement reforms but fail to engage the culture of a school, nothing will change.