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

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

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

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.

I did not choose to be a monster—a shell of a man—half-human, half-fiend. I am a tiefling. I am what I am.

The moon understands what it means to be human. Uncertain. Alone. Cratered by imperfections.

I can fight with a real problem. But I cannot solve the ignorance. I cannot solve the illusion of your mind.

God loves us so much that he doesn’t let us live forever so we can stop making mistakes

The first records I heard were from Dizzy Gillespie and people like that.

Propaganda is a weapon that the Confederacy wields best, and wields heaviest. It is their hammer. And when all you have is a hammer, then everything looks like a nail.

Please let go your anger and please send my Saet Byul back. She is my everything

For I, hearing my Lord's estate amongst many more estates was to be sold, and that the wives of the owners should have an allowance therefrom, it gave me hopes I should receive a benefit thereby.

I am trying to be in that alchemical soup of human transformation. I am trying to process, reconcile, forgive, let go, and grieve, when necessary.