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"The gift of words is the gift of deception and illusion."
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"Don't use your words to criticize, condemn, or complain; us your words to appreciate, inspire, and empower."

"The thing is that it could never again feel natural to talk to her."

"Spoken words have power beyond measure."

"Our speech is poor interpretation of our perception."

"Meetings! Meetings! Meetings!Do they ever achieve anything or do they just let a lot of hot air out of an already over inflated balloon?"

"When we talk, we express our preconceived thoughts, when we listen, we learn and give birth to new thoughts."

"They had nothing in common but the English language, and tried by its help to express what neither of them understood."

"If you need only 10 minutes to speak about a topic that requires 60 minutes, then you are a good speaker. If you need 60 minutes to speak about a topic which requires only 10 minutes, then you are a Romanian preacher."

"When you talk, use words that inspire you and others."

"He sounded absolutely miserable. "Are you ever going to speak to me?"
Explore more quotes by Frank Herbert

"Schools were started to train human talents... The Guild... emphasizes almost pure mathematics. Bene Gesserit performs... politics. The original Bene Gesserit school was directed by those who saw the need of a thread of continuity in human affairs. They saw there count be no such continuity without separating human stock from animal stock - for breeding purposes."

"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 must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone, there will be nothing. Only I will remain."

"It is difficult to live in the present, pointless to live in the future and impossible to live in the past."

"Hayt felt suddenly that he existed in a dream controlled by some other mind, and that he might momentarily forget this to become lost in the convolutions of that mind."

"As long as my Duke remains unmarried some of the Great Houses can still hope for alliance."

"The flesh surrenders itself. Eternity takes back its own. Our bodies stirred these waters briefly, danced with a certain intoxication before the love of life and self, dealt with a few strange ideas, then submitted to the instruments of Time. What can we say of this? I occurred. I am not...yet, I occurred."

"The meeting between ignorance and knowledge, between brutality and culture - it begins in the dignity with which we treat the dead."
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