Mood’s a thing for cattle or for making love. You fight when the necessity arises, no matter your mood.

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.

Mage-taught wisdom reproached him: any gift of power was two-edged.

You could rattle the stars, ' she whispered. 'You could do anything, if only you dared.

The more I learn the less I know but once you learn adversity is opportunity all you do is grow.

Progress far from consisting in change depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past are content to repeat it.

Google is working on self-driving cars, and they seem to work. People are so bad at driving cars that computers don't have to be that good to be much better.

There are many statues of men slaying lions, but if only the lions were sculptors there might be quite a different set of statues.

Nearly everything seems a letdown after a writer has finished writing something.

Growing up in the acting world, you have a lot of opportunities to change who you are and what you believe in based on how people treat you. I never wanted to do that.

Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude.

The system of volunteerism is divisive. It pits one charity against the others for the charity dollar.