She moved like a poem and smiled like a sphinx.

Hope can be a powerful force. Maybe there's no actual magic in it, but when you know what you hope for most and hold it like a light within you, you can make things happen, almost like magic.

I know it's not easy for you, living this life, but try to remember, always try to remember, you're not the only one with troubles.

Creamy and leggy, with long azure hair and the eyes of a silent-movie star, she moved like a poem and smiled like a sphinx.

...something was starting to take shape, out of magic and will. Smoke and bone.

Did you know that mako shark fetuses eat each other in the womb?... Its true. Only cannibal fetuses survive to be born. Can you imagine if people were like that?

And just so you know, the invaders are always the bad guys. Always.

And they were quiet but their blood and nerves and butterflies were not—they were rampantly alive, rushing and thrumming in a wild and perfect melody, matched note for note.

Because hope comes from in you, and wishes are just magic.

My tiny scary friend is coming

You really think joy is easier to come by than pain? What have you had more of?

On Caladan, we ruled with sea and air power, " the Duke said. "Here, we must scrabble for desert power. This is your inheritance, Paul.

When every single piece of media you consume is time-shifted, does that mean it's actually you that's time-shifted?

The bigger you get, the harder this gets because the more aggressive the people working for you are.

I don't share blame. I don't share credit. And I don't share desserts.

Through meditative techniques, one can free the mind of delusions and attain what we call enlightenment.

Do not learn how to react. Learn how to respond.

I don't know much about cars," Joyce said, "but I think someone took my engine.

The thrust of ambition is, and always has been, great, but among the bright-eyed it had once a more adventurous and individualistic air, a much more bracing rivalry.

Be a gift and a benediction.

The only people who need to be "giving back" are thieves, criminals and corrupt individuals that are taking things that are not theirs.