Людям нужны трудные времена, тяготы и угнетение, чтобы развивались их душевные силы.

Глубоко в сознании людей укоренилась поистине извращенная потребность в разумно устроенной, логичной и упорядоченной Вселенной. Но дело в том, что реальная Вселенная всегда, пусть на один шаг опережает логику.

Начало есть время, когда следует позаботиться о том, чтобы все было отмерено и уравновешено. Это знает каждая сестра Бене Гессерит.

Я не боюсь, я не должен бояться. Ибо страх убивает разум. Страх есть малая смерть, влекущая за собой полное уничтожение. Я встречу свой страх и приму его. Я позволю ему пройти надо мной и сквозь меня. И когда он пройдет через меня, я обращу свой внутренний взор на его путь; и там, где был страх, не останется ничего.

Пытаться понять Муад'Диба без того, чтобы понять его смертельных врагов – Харконненов, – это то же самое, что пытаться понять Истину, не поняв, что такое Ложь. Это – попытка познать Свет, не познав Тьмы. Это – невозможно.

Преподобная Мать должна сочетать в себе соблазнительность куртизанки с величественной недоступностью девственной богини, поддерживая обе стороны в напряжении, пока она сохраняет силы своей молодости.

Как подойти нам к изучению отца Муад'Диба? Человеком исключительной теплоты и поразительной холодности был герцог Лето Атрейдес. Но все же многое открывает пути к пониманию его – верная любовь к леди Джессике; надежды, которые возлагал он на своего сына; преданность, с какой служили ему его люди

Кто может уничтожить некую вещь, тот её и контролирует по-настоящему.

Insects are major players in nature's recycling effort, and in nature a corpse is simply organic matter to be recycled. Left to its own devices, nature quickly populates a corpse with a diverse community of organisms, all dedicated to reducing the body to its basic components.

I love having candles, especially when you get downtime. I could just pass out seeing the flame flicker with the lights off.

I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.

I have therefore concluded to apply for the privilege of becoming a Cadet at West Point.

Poetry is a totally different art than film.

I had a whole bunch of very successful movies. I have worked with some incredible people - incredible.

We made part of the record in Miami, and I would go down to the beach, and not 20 feet from the water I see a fish that is at least seven feet long swimming close to the shore. I did not go back in the ocean the entire month.

I don't have many actor friends.

Even though it doesn't look like it, I run. On a treadmill. And I bounce around to all the songs on my iPod - the Pixies, Wagner, Richard and Linda Thompson, even books on tape. Just not self-help ones.

Some folks pay a compliment like they went down in their pocket for it.

When I was involved with 'Star Wars,' I was very interested in all the backstories, and I used to pepper George with all kinds of questions about anything that crossed my mind, because I was very, very into it. But when the job came to an end, I had to move on.

There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights.

In my first few years as an actor, I took one terrible TV job after another. But even as I laughed off my awful roles and made fun of myself to friends, my work made me cringe - I dreaded anyone's seeing it. I was crushed that I wasn't doing anything I was proud of.

You can't raise the aspirations of a child and then leave them hanging. Poverty can't be solved by a project. It's solved by a relationship, collaboration.

In countries around the world, people spend more money on food because they know how precious it is.

Don't ever let anyone bring you down, define who you are or destroy your awesomness.

You are often asked to explain your work, as if the reader isn't able to work it out. And people always try and label you by your work.

One good turn deserves another

In abandoning the understanding that things - services, goods, wars, and houses - have costs, we risk becoming infantilised, incapable of making decisions about government or finance, and perhaps above all about the environment, the wellbeing of the planet upon which we depend and which our children will inherit from us.

Animal rights activists talk about cruelty and torture, some backing their assertions by publishing out-of-date photographs of 'experiments' banned long ago. This is a misrepresentation. The work we do is performed with compassion, care, humanity and humility. I have never seen an animal suffer pain.

I enjoy the work I do in comedies. It's a valid test of your creative abilities.

Miracles are propitious accidents, the natural causes of which are too complicated to be readily understood.

I won't say I've never felt in Alex Salmond's shadow, but latterly, when Alex was leader, I didn't. It's more about my awareness of the fact I became First Minister during a parliamentary term. That means you're First Minister, but you haven't been elected in your own right as First Minister.

Sometimes people come out of school right now and they immediately want a job doing something. And there's nothing wrong with just listening and learning and watching.