I must rule with eye and claw — as the hawk among lesser birds. - Duke Leto Atreides

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.

You can tell if a person is organized by checking his desktop.

What helps me go forward is that I stay receptive I feel that anything can happen.

I think in terms of emotions. And feelings. So sometimes what I say may not always be clear. But creatively, there's a lot to be said for that way of thinking.

Success makes life easier. It doesn't make living easier.

My parents only had one argument in 45 years. It lasted 43 years.

Hey, don't stick that tongue out, unless you're gonna use it.

One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.

There is something silly about grown men and women striving to reduce their vision of themselves and of civilization to bean counting.

If it would not look too much like showing off, I would tell the reader where New Zealand is.

I just would use any instrument known to man in any combination as long as it describes an emotion.