Every man carries his own past with him, " Hayt said.

Religion, too, is a weapon. What manner of weapon is religion when it becomes the government?

They are not mad. They're trained to believe, not to know. Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.

Deceit is a tool of statecraft, " Irulan agreed."There are limits to power, as those who put their hopes in a constitution always discover, " Paul said.

CHOAM is business and business follows profits.

I don't speak, I operate a machine called language. It creaks and groans, but is mine own.

Reason is the first victim of strong emotion, " Scytale murmured.

Cynicism! That, no doubt is a greater crime than heresy.

I have said: "Blow out the lamp! Day is here!" And you keep saying: "Give me a lamp so I can find the day.

What the eyes had seen could not be erased.

Wild Fremen said it well: "Four things cannot be hidden -- love, smoke, a pillar of fire and a man striding across the open bled.

Miracles are not for matured men, they are for children or for unbelievers.

The very lack of explicit pressure was itself a compelling force, for it created a world in which the expectation of success was simply there, a fact of life as basic as breakfast.

If I were blind I'd rather have another blind person leading me around because they know what I'm dealing with and they're experiencing the same things.

I think it's crucial to live, play and work passionately. I'm inspired by my husband, my son and the sense of possibility in the world.

The normal self is the mind. The mind is with limitations. But pure Consciousness is beyond limitations, and is reached by investigation into the "I."

If you're emotional and you're great at something, the money will follow.

The surprise with which a detective novel concludes should set up tragic vibrations which run backward through the entire structure.

I have not proved that the universe is, in fact, a digital computer and that it's capable of performing universal computation, but it's plausible that it is.

What is it but a map of busy life, Its fluctuations, and its vast concerns?

Never answer anonymous letters.