One uses power by grasping it lightly. To grasp too strongly is to be taken over by power, and thus to become its victim.

If you focus your awareness only upon your own rightness, then you invite the forces of opposition to overwhelm you.

The gift of words is the gift of deception and illusion.

One learns from books and example only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires that you do those things.

But one learns from books and reels only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires that you do those things.

I come only to ask a simple question. Is Muad'Dib's death to be followed by the moral suicide of all men? Is that the inevitable aftermath of a Messiah?

To exist is to stand out, away from the background, " The Preacher said. "You aren't thinking or really existing unless you're willing to risk even your own sanity in the judgment of your existence.

She wished such words unsaid with all her heart

Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go they merely determine where you start.

It bothers me when the Hollywood elite are all so against people having guns and want rigorous gun restrictions.

I always have music on unless I'm reading aloud, which I always do before I hand anything in. It's the only way to know if a sentence really works, without clunks or cul-de-sac clauses.

A writers job is to destroy and then to build the thing back up again by a chosen means.

India, in particular, is looking to develop nuclear power for domestic, commercial use, and we should work with them. This is a good deal for both countries.

Holiness is not to love Jesus and do whatever you want. Holiness is to love God and do what He wants.

Men and women make sad mistakes about their own symptoms, taking their vague uneasy longings, sometimes for genius, sometimes for religion, and oftener still for a mighty love.

Humanity needs to see these gestures of peace and to hear words of hope and peace!

Customer service, they say, is dead. Actually, it isn't. It's just hiding behind a call center in Manila.