Jeffery Chen

“Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.”
― Herman Hesse

“Arrakis teaches the attitude of the knife - chopping off what's incomplete and saying: 'Now, it's complete because it's ended here.'

- from "Collected Sayings of Maud'Dib'' by the Princess Irulan”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“Abandon certainty! That's life's deepest command. That's what life's all about. We're a probe into the unknown, into the uncertain. Why can't you hear Muad'Dib? If certainty is knowing absolutely an absolute future, then that's only death disguised! Such a future becomes now!”
― Frank Herbert, Children of Dune

“The most perilous moment for a bad government is one when it seeks to mend its ways.”
― Alexis de Tocqueville, The Old Regime and the French Revolution