"Unwanted and undemanded, a Bene Gesserit saying flowed through Jessica’s mind: To suspect your own mortality is to know the beginning of terror; to learn irrefutably that you are mortal is to know the end of terror."
- Children of Dune, Frank Herbert
"Fly, fly, O bird, to thy native home, for thou hast escaped from the cage, and thy pinions are outspread… Fly forth from this enclosure, since thou art a bird of the spiritual world and indeed: ‘It is as a bird that the sacrificer reaches heaven.’"
- Shams Tabrizi
"Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you."