Do actions agree with words? There's your measure of reliability. Never confine yourself to the words.

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

Give me a lamp so I can find the day.

A person cries out in life because it's lonely and because life's been broken off from whatever created it. But no matter how much you hate life, you love it too. It's like a caldron boiling with everything you have to have, but very painful to the lips.

The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action in mind.

Control the coinage and the courts — let the rabble have the rest.

Madness in method, that's genius