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.

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.

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.

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.

There are some debts that cant be paid with money.

You may have to fight a battle more than once.

Comedy is a great weapon of attack. It's not a great weapon of support.

I know not every mom is a secret KGB spy, but every mom has this whole other life. Every dad and every person has this whole other life.

I say to the Occupy protesters - you're occupying the wrong place, you're protesting the wrong thing.

Happiness doesn't depend on external condition or situation but it depends on mental condition.

When Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's government fell in May 1940, the nation turned to Churchill. At last, his unique qualities were brought to bear on a supreme challenge, and with his unshakable optimism, his heroic vision, and above all, his splendid speeches, Churchill roused the spirit of the British people.

We need to reform the health code so that people are incentivized to buy their own health insurance rather than have to get it through an employer.

Oh, filmmakers, please don't take my soft book and turn it into a horror, or take my horror and make it soft.

I was a really, really depressed kid.

To even get to the Olympics, I have to qualify for the 2013 World Championships and the standard is high. I know I am always going to be a few points behind the top guys.

Reservoir Dogs is a small film, and part of its charm was that it was a small film. I'd probably make it for $3 million now so I'd have more breathing room.

Pictures artists staged their own images or copied or cut out others already in existence. The viewer took them in separately, in sometimes paradoxical waves: an original image, then the manipulations of it, then the places where image and idea intersected. This created a crucial perceptual glitch that irony and understanding filled.

You will notice that the Occupy Wall Street crowds - and the progressives who support them - focus on bringing the wealthy down to earth rather than lifting the 99 percent. They have a nearly religious belief that too much wealth is fundamentally immoral and unhealthy for society.

The first Mardi Gras I went to, I stayed at the Tulane AE Pi house on Broadway. Slept on a pool table one night, slept under it the next.

I have 20 restaurants. And if one doesn't work, it doesn't work.

Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch.

There be those who say that things and places have souls, and there be those who say they have not; I dare not say, myself, but I will tell of The Street.

It sometimes seems that the only plan the Israeli government has for the Palestinians is for them to sit quietly while Israel does whatever takes its fancy, equipped with its army, with laws it promulgated, and with courts it established.

If you want to be a crazy person, go for it. But don't impose it on your kids.

My cooking is so bad my kids thought Thanksgiving was to commemorate Pearl Harbor.

Many people have trouble with forgiveness because they have been taught it is a singular act to be completed in one sitting. That is not so. Forgiveness has many layers, many seasons.

That is, the wife must care for what the husband cares for if he is to remain resolute.

I won't hold any illusions of changing the world or any such nonsense. But maybe, just maybe, I'm helping someone else change his or her life a little bit for the better, even if it just means giving someone a magical place in which to hide.