On Caladan, we ruled with sea and air power, " the Duke said. "Here, we must scrabble for desert power. This is your inheritance, Paul.

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.

Frickin' hit me with the speeding car, now. Take away my intense craving to force myself against him and taste his lips.

We should use this public sphere and redefine - beyond China's borders - what a government is allowed to do, where its powers end and where the realm of a citizen's privacy begins.

On the approach of spring, I withdraw without reluctance from the noisy and extensive scene of crowds without company, and dissipation without pleasure.

CDs, too. Totally corporate. They look real cheap and soulless and they don't smell of anything.

Being without work [in the United States] is still far better for most people than being employed in Central America.

I'm on a roller coaster that only goes up," he said. "And it is my privilege and my responsibility to ride all the way up with you," I said.

Nobody is really happy with what's on their head. People with straight hair want curly, people with curly want straight, and bald people want everyone to be blind.

I think Republicans need to have their staffers reading less Ayn Rand and having them read Dr. Viktor Frankl's Man's Search For Meaning more.

He was determined to discover the underlying logic behind the universe. Which was going to be hard, because there wasn't one.

Little Bird if you don't sing for me I will make you sing