The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.

The willow submits to the wind and prospers until one day it is many willows - a wall against the wind.

Grief is the price of victory.

To know a thing well, know it's limits; Only when pushed beyond it's tolerance will it's true nature be seen. -The Amtal Rule

When I was writing Dune there was no room in my mind for concerns about the book's success or failure. I was concerned only with the writing. Six years of research had preceded the day I sat down to put the story together, and the interweaving of the many plot layers I had planned required a degree of concentration I had never before experienced.

If wishes were fishes, we'd all cast nets.

If all those around you believe some particular thing, you will soon be tempted to share in that belief.