One uses power by grasping it lightly. To grasp too strongly is to be taken over by power, and thus to become its victim.
Frank HerbertIf you focus your awareness only upon your own rightness, then you invite the forces of opposition to overwhelm you.
Frank HerbertIf you believe certain words, you believe their hidden arguments. When you believe something is right or wrong, true or false, you believe the assumptions in the words which express the arguments. Such assumptions are often full of holes, but remain most precious to the convinced.
Frank Herbert