Demerzel: [referring to Cleon] He rescued me. And I loved him. But I also know he programmed me to love. So I’m left to wonder, if it weren’t for this directive, would my feelings be the same? Would I feel anything? I will never know the answer, and I hate him for that.
Bel Riose: Space once folded stays folded.
Brother Day: [as he’s beating Hober] What about this? Is this predictable?
Hober Mallow: Is a frog’s a** watertight?
Brother Constant: Do you still want to know my name?
Hober Mallow: Yeah, of course.
Brother Constant: It’s Hope.
Hober Mallow: Really?
Brother Constant: No. But wouldn’t that be something?
Hober Mallow: A toast for those who are toast.
Bel Riose: I know a better one. Here’s to those who fight and ask why.
Salvor Hardin: [to Gaal, as she takes her last breaths] You were right. The future can be changed. You can still get it back on the right course. I have absolute faith in…
Hari Seldon: It was always the Plan. Terminus would be sacrificed so the Foundation would survive.
Hari Seldon: We can never know in the present if the ripples created by an individual’s actions will have a consequential event downstream.
Hari Seldon: You take the pain and the what-ifs, and you weave them into a narrative that propels you forward.
Demerzel: I’ve always been here, as I always will be.
Gaal Dornick: If Salvor’s sacrifice taught me anything, it’s that I can’t do this on my own. It’s too big for one person. Hari, please. Please don’t make me abandon the only family I have left. Come with me. Maybe I can one day face the Mule. But if there’s a chance of a confrontation with another Hari Seldon at a crisis beyond that, we both know you’re the only one up to the task.
Gaal Dornick: You can reject your legacy, but rarely can you escape it.
Gaal Dornick: There are paths we choose, and there are paths that choose us. What they mean and where they lead are what keep us moving forward.
Gaal Dornick: The future preys on our expectations, our hopes and dreams, our mistakes, and our misplaced trust.