There are proven ways to win the loyalty of tough, strong, ferocious men: play on the certain knowledge of their superiority, the mystique of secret covenant, the esprit of shared suffering.

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.

Growth is achieved when truth is revealed.

Happiness is never grand.

I never really had much problem scoring a fight, you call it the way you see it. The most important thing is concentration you really got to concentrate.

Men are always murderers, and their calmness and generosity is the calmness of a well-fed animal, that knows itself out of danger.

I don't want to call myself a perfectionist because perfection is imperfection.

I'm most excited to see how I've grown as a performer. After Dancing With the Stars I really was able to evolve in a lot of ways and I'm excited to put that to use on stage.

I have always believed that if you are honest in what you do, continually reinvent yourself at the same time, and there's respect amongst your band members, then you will be respected.

He was swept with a sadness, a sadness deep and penetrating, leaving him desolate like someone washed up on a beach, a lone survivor in a world full of strangers.

The most influential of all the virtues are those which are the most in request for daily use. They wear the best, and last the longest.

I am a socially akward man-dork"-Nick