What delicious abandon in the sleep of the child. Where do we lose it?

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.

He perched the bat on his shoulder, giving a nod that he understood I needed his help. With one loud yell and a couple swings of the bat, he cleared me another path.

One's own form of sensibility is not not necessarily another's. Common sense is not so common.

Life demands discomfort and pain.

I cannot say something different to one person and then another.

Most good thinking has its origin in fear.

Humans are alive, therefore life must be complex.

Catholicism is not a lifeless set of rules and regulations. Catholicism is a lifestyle. Catholicism is a way of life designed by God to help you become all you can be.

[On the 1982 intruder into her bedroom:] I realized immediately that it wasn't a servant because they don't slam doors.

You can find that sort of regularity in Stock Exchange quotations. [Expressing his lack of confidence in reported regularities in the periodic classification of elements.]

Stern Winter loves a dirge-like sound.