He who controls the spice controls the universe.

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?

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.

Consider, O Lover, my throatwhite as cigarette paper.The crushed lavender of my knuckles. My heart, a dulled needle threaded throughtoo many patterns.

Real heroes are men who fall and fail and are flawed, but win out in the end because they've stayed true to their ideals and beliefs and commitments.

If you are sad, if you are heartbroken, make yourself up, dress up, add more lipstick and attack.

I can't change everything by myself but I can be one of the people who are trying to change the situation.

A solemn day. Barring a stay by Sup Ct, & with my final nod, Utah will use most extreme power & execute a killer. Mourn his victims. Justice.

Our opponent is an alien starship packed with atomic bombs," I said. "We have a protractor.

Now I can wear high heels again.

Poverty is the center of the Gospel.

There is no such thing as failure. Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction.

Life is wasted in the necessary preparation of finding what is the true way, and we die just as we enter it.