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

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.

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.

What are you doing here?”All right, he was standing in front of an easel, holding a paint palette and brush. “Taxidermy?” he responded with just a touch of his own sarcasm.

Thousands of channels there are through which the beauty of your soul may sail even unto our thoughts. Above all is there the wonderful, central channel of love.

Man cannot measure the bounds nor fathom the depths of divine forgiveness...

And how do you know that these fine begonias are not of equal importance?

Between whom there is hearty truth there is love.

The people who know nothing about music are the ones always talking about it.

As soon as white folks say a play's good, the theater is jammed with blacks and whites.

As an author, you can't expect a movie to be an illustration of the book. If that's what you hope for, you shouldn't sell the rights.

I love the religion of Christianity - which cometh from above - which is a pure, peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of good fruits, and without hypocrisy.

She was nothing more than a mere good-tempered, civil and obliging Young Woman; as such we could scarcely dislike her -- she was only an Object of Contempt