Brother Day: Somebody get me a damn blasted robe so my manhood isn’t flapping around!
Brother Dawn: Having children won’t make you immortal. Just the opposite. Children are meant to replace us. That’s the whole point of them, isn’t it? And if you do have them, then the day you die, you are gone. And then it’s really the last of you. What we are now, as brothers, it’s something more than that.
Demerzel: Any gift that’s given freely out of love is never indecent.
Salvor Hardin: [to Gaal] You’re the last person I know, you are not allowed to die!
Gaal Dornick: Listen, everyone I ever knew, everyone I loved, is behind me. That is rare and terrible, and we share that.
Brother Day: How long did you expect my outburst to last?
Demerzel: A minute and a quarter. You came in well under.
Salvor Hardin: We lose, it’s bad. We win, it’s bad. I can’t accept that.
Gaal Dornick: Despair. Death. Destruction. I did this. When I climbed out of the pool and stumbled in on you and Raych, I threw the equations off course. But maybe those same instincts can steer them back.
Hari Seldon: You feel the future as well?
Salvor Hardin: Not the future. The past.
Gaal Dornick: I should be long dead by then.
Hari Seldon: You slept through the last century. Who’s to say you don’t sleep through the next?
Hari Seldon: There may be infinite ways to arrive at the inevitable.
Hari Seldon: Uninhabited doesn’t mean we’re alone.
Poly Verisof: It’s not a single path, but it is a landscape that sometimes narrows into a dangerous mountain pass that can’t be avoided. That’s why we call it a crisis.
Hari Seldon: The Emperors are hollow men who hollow out their worlds.
Demerzel: Hope is painful.
Gaal Dornick: Traditionally, doors have hinges and maybe a knob. This is a wall.
Hari Seldon: Open a wall, it becomes a door.
Hober Mallow: Anything can be faked, unless it happens to you.
Salvor Hardin: That’s the thing with parents, isn’t it? Never quite who you build them up to be.
Salvor Hardin: Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what’s right.
Gaal Dornick: If your parents never met, you wouldn’t exist. In fact, if any of your great-great-great-great-grandparents hadn’t met, you wouldn’t exist. Everyone in the universe is the result of a unique set of pairings, and psychohistory doesn’t care about them at all.