Do you wrestle with dreams? Do you contend with shadows? Do you move in a kind of sleep? Time has slipped away. Your life is stolen. You tarried with trifles, Victim of your folly.

Highly organized research is guaranteed to produce nothing new.

Scientists seek the lawfulness of events. It is the task of Religion to fit man into this lawfulness.

Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.

How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.

Fear is the mind-killer.

Religion, too, is a weapon. What manner of weapon is religion when it becomes the government?

He who controls the spice controls the universe.

What has mood to do with it? You fight when the necessity arises—no matter the mood! Mood's a thing for cattle or making love or playing the baliset. It's not for fighting.

The Fremen were supreme in that quality the ancients called "spannungsbogen" -- which is the self-imposed delay between desire for a thing and the act of reaching out to grasp that thing.

Proper teaching is recognized with ease. You can know it without fail because it awakens within you that sensation which tells you this is something you have always known.

Confidence comes from thoughtful action, reflection, and experience. Confidence does not come from reaction.

Being your own light ensures that you will never need another to pull you out of darkness again.

There was going to be a spot for me in this joint, the earth, after all. It was never going to be a great match for someone as bright and strange as me, but books were going to make it survivable.

Whereever you go we will share the same sky

The disastrous consequences of widespread European butchery in the future would be even worse.

Artemis Fowl will never be secondary." "I thought you were Artemis Fowl the Second?" said Holly.

Middle-class people are becoming desperate. It can cause a moral man to break bad.

I have nothing to hide!

You must overcome death by finding God in it.

People enjoy sitting back knowing they won't hear a lot of four-letter words.