I have said: "Blow out the lamp! Day is here!" And you keep saying: "Give me a lamp so I can find the day.

Religion, too, is a weapon. What manner of weapon is religion when it becomes the government?

They are not mad. They're trained to believe, not to know. Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.

Deceit is a tool of statecraft, " Irulan agreed."There are limits to power, as those who put their hopes in a constitution always discover, " Paul said.

CHOAM is business and business follows profits.

Every man carries his own past with him, " Hayt said.

I don't speak, I operate a machine called language. It creaks and groans, but is mine own.

Reason is the first victim of strong emotion, " Scytale murmured.

Cynicism! That, no doubt is a greater crime than heresy.

What the eyes had seen could not be erased.

Wild Fremen said it well: "Four things cannot be hidden -- love, smoke, a pillar of fire and a man striding across the open bled.

Do you eat chicken because you are familiar with the scientific literature on them and have decided that their suffering doesn't matter, or do you do it because it tastes good?

She lives in the poetry she cannot write.

I spend so much time on the Internet...I feel like I'm a million pages into the worst book ever, and I'm never going to stop reading.

I think with acting, since I became an actor... I, as a person, have become more confident and I have really come out of my shell somewhat... and back to myself, you know.

I'm always terrified before every movie because I haven't found her [the character], and I don't get it. [Without acting, I'd have] become a nurse.

Mindfulness is so powerful that the fact that it comes out of Buddhism is irrelevant.

The songs keep on writing themselves, and I really love them. It's as close as I get to a religion.

Rock and Roll has no beginning and no end for it is the very pulse of life itself.

My films have elements of genre in them, which prevents them from being purely art films.

Customary greeting to Chief Justice Warren E. Burger, What's shaking, chiefy baby?