Quotes about Balance

A woman could be the wind beneath a man's sails or a gale to send him into uncharted waters. She could be an anchor in stormy seas, or she could let him drift into the rocks.

He's on fire alright, but sometimes that kind of fire can burn churches down.

Grave this on your memory, lad: A world is supported by four things... she held up four big-knuckled fingers. ...the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the righteous and the valor of the brave. But all of these things are as nothing... She closed her fingers into a fist. ...without a ruler who knows the art of ruling. Make that the science of your tradition!

If you rely only on your eyes, your other senses weaken.

One uses power by grasping it lightly. To grasp too strongly is to be taken over by power, and thus to become its victim.

Most discipline is hidden discipline, designed not to liberate but to limit. Do not ask Why? Be cautious with How? Why? leads inexorably to paradox. How? traps you in a universe of cause and effect. Both deny the infinite.

A world is supported by four things... the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the righteous and the valor of the brave. But all of these are as nothing...without a ruler who knows the art of ruling.

In politics, the tripod is the most unstable of all structures.

Better a dry morsel and quietness therewith than a house full of sacrifice and strife.

You don't see much of any path unless you are Janus, looking simultaneously backward and forward.

Do not be trapped by the need to achieve anything. This way, you achieve everything.

The historical system of mutual pillage and extortion stops here on Arrakis," his father said. "You cannot go on forever stealing what you need without regard to those who come after. The physical qualities of a planet are written into its economic and political record.