Will

“By your belief in singularities, in granular absolutes, you deny movement, even the movement of evolution! While you cause a granular universe to persist in your awareness, you are blind to movement. When things change, your absolute universe vanishes, no longer accessible to your self-limiting perceptions. The universe has moved beyond you. —FIRST DRAFT, ATREIDES MANIFESTO, BENE GRESSERIT ARCHIVES”
― Frank Herbert, Heretics of Dune

“Simmons hadn’t been too surprised to find Franklin a young bearded man who looked more like he ought to be doing a poetry reading at a college than leading people to look at a classified government facility.”
― Bob Mayer, Area 51

“Belief structure creates a filter through which chaos is sifted into order.”
― Frank Herbert, Heretics of Dune

“More than power, Duarte made everything that surrounded him seem born of confidence. It was a good trick, because even after Holden saw through it, it still worked.”
― James S.A. Corey, Tiamat's Wrath