Fear is the mind-killer.

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.

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.

You see, gentlemen, they have something to die for. They've discovered they're a people. They're awakening.

The reason why some of us love when it rain is because it fills in the faults of our broken hearts and makes us feel complete, even if it is temporary.

In the time that man has been here there is one thing that all have seen and gazed upon in wonder. Luna.

He [John McCain] hit me - he's not a war hero.

The difficulty is capturing surprise on film.

The happy should not insist too much upon their happiness in the presence of the unhappy.

Whether people know the evolution of the conversation or not, I don't know, but thematically, as a comedian, I stay in the same ballpark - around my issues and my philosophy of life.

You cannot penetrate events with reportage.

Abstinence works, I know it from my own personal life, abstinence works.

I feel comfortable in places like London. You get many cultures in L.A. but it's strangely segregated.

The war against war is going to be no holiday excursion or camping party.