Пытаться понять Муад'Диба без того, чтобы понять его смертельных врагов – Харконненов, – это то же самое, что пытаться понять Истину, не поняв, что такое Ложь. Это – попытка познать Свет, не познав Тьмы. Это – невозможно.

Глубоко в сознании людей укоренилась поистине извращенная потребность в разумно устроенной, логичной и упорядоченной Вселенной. Но дело в том, что реальная Вселенная всегда, пусть на один шаг опережает логику.

Начало есть время, когда следует позаботиться о том, чтобы все было отмерено и уравновешено. Это знает каждая сестра Бене Гессерит.

Я не боюсь, я не должен бояться. Ибо страх убивает разум. Страх есть малая смерть, влекущая за собой полное уничтожение. Я встречу свой страх и приму его. Я позволю ему пройти надо мной и сквозь меня. И когда он пройдет через меня, я обращу свой внутренний взор на его путь; и там, где был страх, не останется ничего.

Преподобная Мать должна сочетать в себе соблазнительность куртизанки с величественной недоступностью девственной богини, поддерживая обе стороны в напряжении, пока она сохраняет силы своей молодости.

Как подойти нам к изучению отца Муад'Диба? Человеком исключительной теплоты и поразительной холодности был герцог Лето Атрейдес. Но все же многое открывает пути к пониманию его – верная любовь к леди Джессике; надежды, которые возлагал он на своего сына; преданность, с какой служили ему его люди

Людям нужны трудные времена, тяготы и угнетение, чтобы развивались их душевные силы.

Кто может уничтожить некую вещь, тот её и контролирует по-настоящему.

I certainly wouldn't buy a DVD series of a hit show and start at Season 7. I would want to go back and start from the beginning.

It has been the case for some time that I have made myself dizzy thinking about the fact that the implementation of the Three-fold Program of the government, above all in the area of food and clothing, has been experiencing difficulties.

To me, our music is like Jamaican stuff - if they can't hear it, they're not supposed to hear it. It's not for them if they can't understand it.

We need men of the cross with the message of the cross bearing the marks of the cross.

There isn't a single player I would pay to watch. You can say Thierry Henry, he's a fabulous striker, with pace and power, but a great entertainer needs to have charisma, too. Does he have charisma? No.

I grew up loving the John Wayne and Clint Eastwood westerns.

When I was young, it was difficult to imagine entering a world where my parents succeeded so much and I could have risked failing. It would have felt much harder.

Art is coming face to face with yourself.

They're still working on the script - they've got to get that nailed down and they want the first movie to come out obviously, not get too ahead of themselves. But yeah, it's looking good. I love the second book a lot as well, so kind of diving into that is awesome.

I know family comes first but shouldnt that mean after breakfast

Hurricanes have killed more people worldwide in the last 50 years than any other natural cataclysm.

I showed that privacy was an implicit right in Jewish law, probably going back to the second or third century, when it was elaborated on in a legal way.

The best way to describe a cowboy Is mud blood guts and glory.

Over the years, I have been a house painter, farm worker, paste-up artist, Easter Bunny, pizza delivery person, homeless shelter staff member, and counselor for adults and kids with mental illness - I quit my last real job in 2000 to work on writing full-time.

My dad was the one who really loved basketball, and he was the one that put the basketball in my hands, and my mom was 'Team Mom' of all my teams. I used to play for three or four teams at once and she would just spend her entire afternoon driving me from practice to practice to practice.

Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.

A part of you has grown in me. And so you see, it's you and me together forever and never apart, maybe in distance, but never in heart.

You're only as good as the people you hire.

What I've learned to do is arrest my addiction - arrest it myself, so I don't get arrested.

I hope that the entire Senate votes to say that if you're on the terrorist watch list - not just the no-fly list, which is a much more targeted list, but the terrorist watch list - you should not be able to buy a weapon.

I think we should bring up our children with much less pressure to compete and get ahead: no comparing one child with another, at home or in school; no grades. Let athletics be primarily for fun, and let them be organized by children and youths themselves.

For a believer, Christian faith is true to the human heart, not in the sense that any old thing we fancy believing in will become conveniently true - but because the complicated truth about our hearts, as we struggle to perceive it, tells us what we are and where we are, and consequently what we need.

Practicing going over scenes and in front of the camera just to see how that feels, and then ultimately just finding a way to expose yourself to people. That's what I did.

You can do whatever you want with my work.