violence is the last resource of incompetence

All roads lead to Trantor, and that is where all stars end.

Now any dogma, based primarily on faith and emotionalism, is a dangerous weapon to use on others, since it is almost impossible to guarantee that the weapon will never be turned on the user.

There's so much knowledge to be had that specialists cling to their specialties as a shield against having to know anything about anything else. They avoid being drowned.

Goodbye, Hari, my love. Remember always--all you did for me.”
           
-I did nothing for you.”
           
-You loved me and your love made me--human.

...the rotten tree-trunk, until the very moment when the storm-blast breaks it in two, has all the appearance of might it ever had.