Forward the Foundation (Foundation, #7)

by Isaac Asimov

He was not young any longer. Life no longer stretched before him as a vast uncharted field, its horizon lost in the distance.

The pleasantness of their company outweighed the regret of their passing. On the whole, then, it is better to experience what you experience now than not to.”

Being feared is nothing. Being despised, even, can be lived with. But being laughed at—that’s fatal.

There was so much more in the past, so much less in the future, that the mind turned away from the looming shadow ahead to contemplate the safety of what had gone before.