You will be required to do wrong no matter where you go. It is the basic condition of life, to be required to violate your own identity.

Everything is true, ' he said. 'Everything anybody has ever thought.''Will you be all right?''I'll be all right, ' he said, and thought, And I'm going to die. Both those are true, too.

Time and tide, he thought. The cycle of life. Ending in this, the last twilight. Before the silence of death. He perceived in this a micro-universe, complete.

There, at her console, he dialed 594: pleased acknowledgement of husband's superior wisdom in all matters

The tyranny of an object, he thought. It doesn't know I exist.

You mean old books?""Stories written before space travel but about space travel.""How could there have been stories about space travel before --""The writers, " Pris said, "made it up.

That's because you're a highly moral person. I'm not. I don't judge, not even myself.

Mankind needs more empathy.

An android, ” he said, “doesn’t care what happens to another android. That’s one of the indications we look for."“Then, ” Miss Luft said, “you must be an android.

I wonder, he wondered, if any human has ever felt this way before about an android.

Be positive. Stay happy and don't let the negativity of the world get you down.

The world was full of waistrels and waifs, sycophants and spies - all of whom put words to the wrong use, who made everything that was said or written suspect

Everything seems pointless since you left

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.

Holding her hand in public is just another way of saying you're proud to have her.

There's always another level up. There's always another ascension. More grace, more light, more generosity, more compassion, more to shed, more to grow.

If you would stick to the concrete, and put your discoveries in the form of entertaining anecdotes about your adventures with women, your conversation would be easier to follow.

I like some time away to recharge the batteries, not only physically, but emotionally so that I get to the point where I'm just dying to direct again and then that's the right time to do it again.

I bear a deep red stain that runs from my left shoulder down to my right hip, a trail left by the herbwitch's poison that my mother used to try to expel me from her womb.

You can usually tell when a couple becomes centered on each other because they are forever breaking up and getting back together.