There are two ways of meeting difficulties. You alter the difficulties or you alter yourself to meet them.

There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.

Neither situations nor people can be altered by the interference of an outsider. If they are to be altered, that alteration must come from within.

Truth, though it has many disadvantages, is at least changeless. You can always find it where you left it.

Where there is laughter there is always more health than sickness.

It's a good thing to learn early that other people's opinions do not matter, unless they happen to be true.

if you listen long enough - or is it deep enough? - the silence of a lover can speak plainer than any words! Only you must know how to listen. Pain must have taught you how.

All persecution is a sign of fear; for if we did not fear the power of an opinion different from our own, we should not mind others holding it.

She believed in letting children have a certain amount of rope, and only intervened at the last moment, in order to prevent their hanging themselves by it.

Time indeed has very little to do with living except at its beginning or near its end.

To be a Jew is to be strong with a strength that has outlived persecutions. It is to be wise against ignorance, honest against piracy, harmless against evil, kind against cruelty

He who kneels the most, stands the best.

The Fremen were supreme in that quality the ancients called "spannungsbogen" -- which is the self-imposed delay between desire for a thing and the act of reaching out to grasp that thing.

And I’m not spying! I’m evaluating!”“It’s the same difference!

The nights did not come gently but seemed to slam down angrily upon the Earth.

Music definitely gave me a focus. I was an artist without an outlet. Let's just say if I was not famous, I could have been infamous. I could've had my own episode of 'American Gangster.'

Cosmoe works on any of the standard filesystems available for Linux.

Because it equates tradition with prejudice, the left finds itself increasingly unable to converse with ordinary people in their common language.

When I'm on stage I don't say anything. The last thing I want to do is share my thoughts. I don't know if that's mysterious - maybe it's just old fashioned.

I've taken my knickers off. My friends told me my panty line was visible, so I went without.

If it's a good book, anyone will read it. I'm totally unashamed about still reading things I loved in my childhood.