To use raw power is to make yourself infinitely vulnerable to greater powers. - Frank Herbert

The real wealth of a planet is in its landscape, how we take part in that basic source of civilization- agriculture.

Radicals always see matters in terms which are too simple — black and white, good and evil, them and us. By addressing complex matters in that way, they rip open a passage for chaos. The art of government as you call it, is the mastery of chaos.

Can you remember your first taste of spice?” “It tasted like cinnamon.” “But never twice the same,” he said. “It’s like life — it presents a different face each time you take it. Some hold that the spice produces a learned-flavor reaction. The body, learning a thing is good for it, interprets the flavor as pleasurable — slightly euphoric. And, like life, never to be truly synthesized.