Frank Herbert, Children Of Dune Quotes

If you focus your awareness only upon your own rightness, then you invite the forces of opposition to overwhelm you.

The gift of words is the gift of deception and illusion.

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

One learns from books and example only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires that you do those things.

But one learns from books and reels only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires that you do those things.

I come only to ask a simple question. Is Muad'Dib's death to be followed by the moral suicide of all men? Is that the inevitable aftermath of a Messiah?

To exist is to stand out, away from the background, " The Preacher said. "You aren't thinking or really existing unless you're willing to risk even your own sanity in the judgment of your existence.