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.

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 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?

But my thoughtsbreed truthsthat my heartcan'tbare.Like Melody.

My soul is not my own any more. I cannot live like I want to. I am going to give up films.

I probably dreamt about running off to America or something when I was 16 because it just seemed like I was studying algebra and going, 'What am I going to use this for?

Don't give your advice before you are called upon.

Eve tasted the apple in the Garden of Eden in order to slake that intense thirst for knowledge that the simple pleasure of picking flowers and talking to Adam could not satisfy.

Does the cosmos contain keys for opening my diving bell? A subway line with no terminus? A currency strong enough to buy my freedom back? We must keep looking.

It was all about wanting to get revenge. Pathetic, really, but it still is the motivation.

[To] interpret Parmenides as a Kant before Kant ... this is exactly what we must do.

In existing States a fresh law is looked upon as a remedy for evil. Instead of themselves altering what is bad, people begin by demanding a law to alter it.

When you have endless time, you take all day to go to the grocery store. But, if you have to be at work for 14 hours a day, you manage your time better. I know I do.