Gaal Dornick: Once, a man came to Hari Seldon and asked to be told his fate. He wanted to know whether the predictive models could chart the significance of his life. But Hari told him only the movements of masses could be predicted. The fate of one individual will always remain a mystery.
Gaal Dornick: Belief is a powerful weapon. That’s why the Empire feared Hari Seldon’s predictions so much. Empires govern worldly concerns, but what comes after? Our souls? These realms are the purview of faith. And faith is a sword forged in the fires of the infinite.
Brother Day: And if the galaxy comes to believe their leaders are less than, rather than more than themselves, they may cease to follow. We are a glass vessel, spun with a fine hand. If the pressures inside start to swirl, and we are not uniform, we may burst.
Abbas: If you were better at math, you’d know that repeated luck was more than just luck.
Salvor Hardin: Repeated luck is never luck.
Brother Day: Bad tidings also come in threes.
Phara: A weapon’s only as good as the man who’s wielding it.
Gaal Dornick: In the twilight of a man’s life, when his biography is nearly complete, he grows desperate to know the measure of his days, how his voice compares to the chorus of those who’ve come before. Do I matter? Are my choices my own? Or is my destiny governed by an unseen hand?
Gaal Dornick: The fate of one individual will always remain a mystery. But the movements of masses, the rise and falls of cultures, causes and worlds, these were answers Hari Seldon had long since unriddled. And the beginning of the end, as befitting its name, took place on Terminus.
Arren Sorn: Furthering knowledge is the most noble work of humankind, Gaal. Remember that.
Arren Sorn: The tides that rise will ebb. Not in our lifetime, but someday. All things have a cycle. After destruction, rebirth. Knowledge gives us ways to survive the destruction till the rebirth arrives.
Salvor Hardin: [to Rowan] Desperate people make mistakes.
Raych Foss: You can still solve a puzzle even with a piece missing.
Demerzel: The search for meaning is not always about the answer. It’s also the process of seeking that enlightens.
Demerzel: At every point in our lives, we have the power to choose our own path.
Brother Dawn: Perfect symmetry here. Hedges trimmed every day. A foolish attempt to control the uncontrollable.
Halima: Some believe the purpose of reincarnation is to ascend to the highest planes of enlightenment. But we know better, don’t we? For there is no end to this journey. For our capacity for growth is infinite. Even a soul that appeared holy four hundred years ago would not be holy today.
Halima: This is the Mother’s lesson. As the galaxy changes, so must we. We must embrace the value of transformation, of evolution, of difference. The greatest failure of humanity, the greatest sin against the Mother, is stagnation.
Halima: Our lives in these bodies may be brief, but our souls are endless. And as we shape and sculpt our souls into a never-ending quest for holiness, remember this. This will not always be your life. But it is your life now. Your choice now. Your change now. Make it count!
Salvor Hardin: You know what you’re doing?
Hugo: Almost never, lover.