You do not take from this universe. It grants you what it will.

Argument closes off the doors of the senses. It always masks violence. Continued too long, argument always leads to violence.

The singular multiplicity of this universe draws my deepest attention. It is a thing of ultimate beauty. Leto II

The successful writer listens to himself.

A leader is one of the things that distinguishes a mob from a people. He maintains the level of individuals. Too few individuals and a people reverts to a mob.

Most believe that a satisfactory future requires a return to an idealized past, a past which never in fact existed.

I don’t think it’s quite that simple. Some people never observe anything, Life just happens to them. They get by on little more than a kind of dumb persistence, and they resist with anger and resentment anything that might lift them out of that false serenity.