There is no escape—we pay for the violence of our ancestors.

Education is no substitute for intelligence.

Religion, too, is a weapon. What manner of weapon is religion when it becomes the government?

Beginnings are such delicate times.

I have said: "Blow out the lamp! Day is here!" And you keep saying: "Give me a lamp so I can find the day.

I am not the river I am the net.

Every judgment teeters on the brink of error,” Leto explained. “To claim absolute knowledge is to become monstrous. Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.

The Reverend Mother must combine the seductive wiles of a courtesan with the untouchable majesty of a virgin goddess, holding these attributes in tension so long as the powers of her youth endure. For when youth and beauty have gone, she will find that the place-between, once occupied by tension, has become a wellspring of cunning and resourcefulness.  

Truth suffers from too much analysis.