"The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed."

"The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless."

"True nobility is exempt from fear."

"The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct."

"Before 'Schindler's List,' I wouldn't have believed movies had a lot of power for social change."

"I'd visit the near future, close enough that someone might want to talk to Larry Niven and can figure out the language distant enough to get me decent medical techniques and a ticket to the Moon."

"My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them."

"There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up."