The scarce water of Dune is an exact analog of oil scarcity. CHOAM is OPEC.

The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.

Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.

All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities.

If we define Futurism as an exploration beyond accepted limits, then the nature of limiting systems becomes the first object of exploration.

When politics and religion are intermingled, a people is suffused with a sense of invulnerability, and gathering speed in their forward charge, they fail to see the cliff ahead of them

There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.

Do actions agree with words? There's your measure of reliability. Never confine yourself to the words.

Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

Justice belongs to those who claim it, but let the claimant beware lest he create new injustice by his claim and thus set the bloody pendulum of revenge into its inexorable motion

The best contribution one can make to humanity is to improve oneself.

One of the great beauties of politics as an art form was its lack of restriction to merely standard forms of realism.

We had first met in a class on digital imaging

HELPED are those who lose their fear of death; theirs is the power to envision the future in a blade of grass.

Survival can be summed up in three words - never give up. That's the heart of it really. Just keep trying.

America's leadership is essential. America's resources are vast. America's opportunities are unprecedented.

What I'm really addicted to is getting people to understand that if their kids aren't competent readers coming out of middle school, it's really going to be hard for them in high school.

I can give away everything I posses, but am without love, and I have no happiness

Artists have the unique ability to tell stories. It's not charts and graphs that get people to change.

I had a very real fear of spiders until one bit me. I got bitten by a redback spider in Australia and I've never been frightened of them since. Maybe I've turned into Spider-man.

Each man is divine. Each man that you see is a God by his very nature.