You see, gentlemen, they have something to die for. They've discovered they're a people. They're awakening.

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.

Think? Why think! We have computers to do that for us.

Increase of love brings increase of happiness, when it is mutual, and pure as that will be.

You can put lipstick on a pig. It's still a pig.

A reporter's ability to keep the bond of confidentiality often enables him to learn the hidden or secret aspects of government.

The way to get things done is to stimulate competition. I do not mean in a sordid, money-getting way, but in the desire to excel.

They wouldn't tell Scipio how much of the counterfeit cash was left since, as Riccio put it, 'You're a detective now, after all.

Be guided by feeling alone. We are only simple mortals, subject to error...

Typography is a hidden tool of manipulation within society.

Transform reason into ordered intuition; let all thyself be light. This is thy goal.

I've been in the movies for 50 years, I've made 130 some-odd movies.