They compose poems to their knives.

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.

A man need is pain to be delivered from the pleasure of sin.

When I read a novel my imagination starts off at a gallop and leaves the narrator hidden in a cloud of dust I have to come jogging twenty miles back to the denouement.

Of course I took something from the [Glee set]. I took my entire shoe collection, that's all I would ever need.

You possess other people's...bodies." He accepted that statement with a nod. "Do you want to possess my body?" "I want to do a lot of things to your body, but that's not one of them.

Know that all healing forces are within, not without! The applications from without are merely to create within a coordinating mental and spiritual force.

Find your passion and do it totally. The more life experience you get, the better you'll be at whatever you want to do.

Your gift to God is honesty. God's gift to you is truth.

Hear Jesus as a family and serve Him. Care about people and love people.

Public works are not accomplished by the miraculous power of a magic wand. They are paid for by funds taken away from the citizens.