Give as few orders as possible, " his father had told him once long ago. "Once you've given orders on a subject, you must always give orders on that subject.

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.

If God were not only to hear our prayers, as he does ever and always, but to answer them as we want them answered, he would not be God our Saviour but the ministering genius of our destruction.

literature will lose, sunlight will win, don't worry.

But in the end of our love story, We are on the same page.

You've always been my safe place, my escape when life gets crazy. You're my calm through every storm.

He fell in love with the way she closed her eyes, long before he fell in love with her.

Most of man's trouble comes from his inability to be still.

Never have I thought that I was the happy possessor of a "talent;" my sole concern has been to save myself by work and faith.

I wouldn't, a little bit frightened but throughout my life I'd learnt that when you're in the serious situations, you've got to try to stay calm. Because that's the way you get out of them.

I've seen things, and that's almost the same as doing them.

I think every actor should be always grateful when they work.