“If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn’t brood. I’d type a little faster.”

I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.

I don’t subscribe to the thesis, ‘Let the buyer beware,’ I prefer the disregarded one that goes, ‘Let the seller be honest.’

The intelligent man is never bored.

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.

Better to make a good future than predict a bad one.

You don’t have to be able to lay eggs to know when one of them is rotten.

There is no belief, however foolish, that will not gather its faithful adherents who will defend it to the death.

Any fool can tell a crisis when it arrives. The real service to the state is to detect it in embryo.

If I am right, then (religious fundamentalists) will not go to Heaven, because there is no Heaven. If they are right, then they will not go to Heaven, because they are hypocrites.

Feminine intuition? Is that what you wanted the robot for? You men. Faced with a woman reaching a correct conclusion and unable to accept the fact that she is your equal or superior in intelligence, you invent something called feminine intuition.

Since emotions are few and reasons are many (said the robot Giscard) the behavior of a crowd can be more easily predicted than the behavior of one person.

Man’s greatest asset is the unsettled mind.

All you have to do is take a close look at yourself and you will understand everyone else.

Nothing has to be true, but everything has to sound true.

Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.

Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right.

Never can true reconcilement grow where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep.

If there is no love more in yonder heart, it is but a corpse unburied.

Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.

Men are always ready to die for us, but not to make our lives worth having. Cheap sentiment and bad logic.

All live to die, and rise to fall.

I just hope and pray I can die with my boots on.

Life is a long agonized illness only curable by death.

Must in death your daylight finish? My sun sets to rise again.