One must always keep the tools of statecraft sharp and ready. Power and fear – sharp and ready.

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.

And if Germans do have systematic minds, this is just as likely to be because their exceedingly erratic mother tongue has exhausted their brains' capacity to cope with any further irregularity

Love is an inspiration. It moves you. It motivates you. It keeps you going.

If dual torment is to be my one condition, both of loving and being loved I would quit.

Hurricane Sandy is a disturbing sign of things to come. We must heed this warning and act quickly to solve the climate crisis. Dirty energy makes dirty weather.

With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?

I don't ever want to be an average fourth starter. I want to be the big guy.

We are making choices that will affect whether beings thousands of generations from now will be able to be born sound of mind and body.

Since we have to speak well of the dead, let's knock them while they're alive.

I've been into golf, trying to get into the gym to stay somewhat fit. I've got two boys now, they're active kids.

He who regards all things as one is a companion of Nature.