The greatest and most important problems of life cannot be solved. They can only be outgrown.

Parting with friends is a sadness. A place is only a place.

Religions often partake of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.

All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible.

A world is supported by four things: the learning of wise, the justice of great, the prayers of the righteous and the valor of the brave. But all of these are as nothing without a ruler who knows the art of ruling.

Money to a writer is time to write.

The problem of leadership is inevitably: Who will play God?" Muad'Dib