Quotes from Brian Herbert

Discovery is dangerous . . . but so is life. A man unwilling to take risk is doomed never to learn, never to grow, never to live.

Let pressure pass over and through you. That way you can't be harmed by it.

No person can ever know everything that is in the heart of another. We are all Face Dancers in our souls.

Love is the highest achievement to which any human may aspire. It is an emotion that encompasses the full depth of heart, mind, and soul.

When we try to conceal our innermost drives, our entire being screams betrayal.

A winner has more skills than a loser," Vor said, "no matter how you define the competition.

I'm a thinker. That is what I do, in great depth and detail, every waking moment of the day. I like to believe it's worthwhile. And yet, I can't help but recall something ... said to me once when I was young: "All of these things with which we occupy ourselves don't amount to much in the cosmic scale of things, do they? No matter how extensively we ponder any particular topic, there is really very little there"--Gilbertus Albans, Reflections in the Mirror of the Mind

Seeker, who says religion is the way to God?

We are trained to believe and not to know.

Never underestimate the power of the human mind to believe what it wants to believe, no matter the conflicting evidence.

How will I be remembered by my children? This is the true measure of a man.

There is no man so blind as one who has made up his mind.

My wife noticed that I wrote really good complaint letters about faulty products and that I could get anything I wanted out of these big corporations, and she said that I was a good writer and that I should go to my dad and ask him for help.

I'll keep writing 'Dune' books as long as my mother's spirit continues to support the project.

Fear invites aggression - do not show it to a predator.

Let the future remain uncertain, for that is the canvas to receive our desires.