Genius is both the sail and the wind

Marriage is more about work than about divine luck, more about finding someone to love than about finding someone to meet your own laundry list of personal needs.

Being a practiced liar doesn't mean you have a powerful imagination. Many good liars have no imagination at all

We estimate wrongdoing in proportion to the purity of our conscience

But I say that even as the holy and the righteous cannot rise beyond the highest which is in each one of you, So the wicked and the weak cannot fall lower than the lowest which is in you also.

He is an exceptional talent. I still think Diego Maradona is the best player I have ever seen but Messi is closing in fast. He's a wonderful sight in full flight and we are lucky to have him around.

Like the lark that soars in the air, first singing, then silent, content with the last sweetness that satiates it, such seemed to me that image, the imprint of the Eternal Pleasure.

We Bene Gesserit sift people to find the humans.

War is the antithesis of all our teaching. It breaks all the commandments; it makes rich men poor, and strong men weak. It makes well men sick, and by it living men are changed to dead men.

I don't think telling the truth ever gets anyone in trouble in the long run. Maybe the day after, but not in the long run.

Real optimism sees the negatives but accentuates the positive.