“If you argue and rankle and contradict, you may achieve a victory sometimes; but it will be an empty victory because you will never get your opponent’s good will.”

— Benjamin Franklin
 

 
“A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”

— Thomas Mann
 

 
“Truth is what stands the test of experience.”

— Albert Einstein
 

 
“The secret of all success is to know how to deny yourself. Prove that you can control yourself, and you are an educated man; and without this all other education is good for nothing.”

— R. D. Hitchcock
 

 
“Muad’Dib’s teachings have become the playground of scholastics, of the superstitious and the corrupt. He taught a balanced way of life, a philosophy with which a human can meet problems arising from an ever-changing universe. He said humankind is still evolving, in a process which will never end. He said this evolution moves on changing principles which are known only to eternity. How can corrupted reasoning play with such an essence?”

— Frank Herbert