Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And as the aristocracy develops, government tends more and more to act exclusively in the interests of the ruling class -- whether that class be hereditary royalty, oligarchs of financial empires, or entrenched bureaucracy.

He who controls the spice controls the universe.

The best contribution one can make to humanity is to improve oneself.

There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.

Ideas are a dime a dozen. It's execution that counts.

A human being can stand any amount of pain.

The person who takes the banal and ordinary and illuminates it in a new way can terrify. We do not want our ideas changed.