All good things are cheap: all bad are very dear.

We judge others by their actions; we judge ourselves by our intentions.

We think there is a parallel between federal involvement in education and the decline in profit over recent years.

War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.

Cheer up, children, I am all right.

All television is children's television.

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. - Dune, "Litany Against Fear", 1965.

Forget regret, or life is yours to miss.

Reading the Bible without meditating on it is like trying to eat without swallowing.

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend -- or a meaningful day.

The most precious things in speech are pauses.

See! from the brake the whirring pheasant springs, And mounts exulting on triumphant wings: Short is his joy; he feels the fiery wound, Flutters in blood, and panting beats the ground.

Advertising promotes that divine discontent which makes people strive to improve their economic status.

If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be research.

l'etat, c'est moi.

Mourn not the dead that in the cool earth lie, but rather mourn the apathetic, throng the coward and the meek who see the world's great anguish and its wrong, and dare not speak.

The ultimate indignity is to be given a bedpan by a stranger who calls you by your first name.

The crime of a mother is a heavy burden.

My country right or wrong; when right, to keep her right; when wrong, to put her right.

The hind that would be mated by the lion Must die for love. -All 's Well that Ends Well. Act i. Sc. 1.