"Unfortunately, some wars are won by the side that is the most fanatical in a religious sense. The victorious leaders harness the holy energy of collective insanity."

"Secrets give birth to more secrets."

"The coward will not fight. The fool refuses to see necessity. The scoundrel puts himself ahead of humanity. The Zenshiites are all these things."

"Do not count what you have lost. Count only what you still have."

"Peering back through the magnifying glass of time, men and women in the future view the personalities of the Great Revolt as larger-than-life. Such an impression comes not through any distortion of the glass, nor from a process of embellishment that generates mythology. Instead, the heroes of the Jihad were much as they are now remembered; they rose to the occasion when humanity needed them more then ever before."

"Invention is an art form."

"Endurance. Belief. Patience. Hope. These are the key words of our existence."

"The future, the past and the present are intertwined, a weave that forms any point in time."

"Here is where the analytical power of the thinking machines fails them: they believe they have no weaknesses."

"A human lifespan is not always sufficient for a person to achieve greatness. To counter this, some of us have seized more time for ourselves."

"One can compare this new Jihad to a necessary editing process. We are disposing of the things that are destroying us as humans."

"There is no such thing as the future. Humankind faces multiple possible futures, many of which hinge on seemingly inconsequential events."

"In order to understand the meaning of victory, you must first define your enemies...and your allies."

"The weakness of thinking machines is that they actually believe all the information they receive, and react accordingly."

"Select your battles carefully. Ultimately, victory and defeat are a matter of your own careful — or reckless — choices."

"Science: lost in its own mythos, redoubling its efforts when it's forgotten it's aim."

"Science: the creation of dilemmas by the solutions of mysteries."

"Science, under the guise of benefiting mankind, is a dangerous force that often tampers with natural processes, without recognizing the consequences. Under such a scenario, mass destruction is inevitable."

"Everything in the universe contains flaws, ourselves included. Even God does not attempt perfection in His creations. Only humankind has such foolish arrogance."

"Only those with narrow minds fail to see that the definition of impossible is "Lack of imagination and incentive.""

"Home can be anywhere, for it is a part of one's self."

"In the desert, the line between life and death is sharp and quick."

"Brutality breeds brutality. Love breeds love."

"The natural destiny of power is fragmentation."

"An Emperor's slightest dislike is transmitted to those who serve him, and there it is amplified into rage."

"It is no secret that we all have secrets. However, few of them are as veiled as we intend them to be."

"To produce the genetic alteration of an organism, place it in an environment which is dangerous but not lethal."

"Once, men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them."

"Hope clouds observation."

"You've heard of animals chewing off a leg to escape a trap? There's an animal kind of trick. A human would remain in the trap, endure the pain, feigning death that he might kill the trapper and remove a threat to his kind."

"I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain."

"Paul sensed his own tensions, decided to practice one of the mind-body lessons his mother had taught him. Three quick breaths triggered the responses: he fell into the floating awareness...focusing the consciousness...aortal dilation...avoiding the unfocused mechanism of consciousness...to be conscious by choice...blood enriched and swift-flooding the overload regions...one does not obtain food-safety-freedom by instinct alone...animal consciousness does not extend beyond the given moment nor into the idea that its victims may become extinct...the animal destroys and does not produce...animal pleasures remain close to sensation levels and avoid the perceptual...the human requires a background grid through which to see his universe...focused consciousness by choice, this forms your grid...bodily integrity follows nerve-blood flow according to the deepest awareness of cell needs...all things/cells/beings are impermanent...strive for flow-permanence within..."

"Parting with friends is a sadness. A place is only a place."

"A popular man arouses the jealousy of the powerful."

"If wishes were fishes, we'd all cast nets."

"In the week before their departure to Arrakis, when all the final scurrying about had reached a nearly unbearable frenzy, an old crone came to visit the mother of the boy, Paul. It was a warm night at Castle Caladan, and the ancient pile of stone that had served the Atreides family as home for twenty-six generations bore that cooled-sweat feeling it acquired before a change in the weather."

"A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that the balances are correct. This every sister of the Bene Gesserit knows. To begin your study of the life of Muad'Dib, then take care that you first place him in his time: born in the 57th year of the Padishah Emperor, Shaddam IV. And take the most special care that you locate Muad'Dib in his place: the planet Arrakis. Do not be deceived by the fact that he was born on Caladan and lived his first fifteen years there. Arrakis, the planet known as Dune, is forever his place."

"Mood? 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."

"In shield fighting, one moves fast on defense, slow on attack. Attack has the sole purpose of tricking the opponent into a misstep, setting him up for the attack sinister. The shield turns the fast blow, admits the slow kindjal!"

"A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it."

"The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience."

"A world is supported by four things...the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the righteous and the valor of the brave. But all of these are as nothing... without a ruler who knows the art of ruling. Make that the science of your tradition!"

"That which submits rules....The willow submits to the wind and prospers until one day it is many willows — a wall against the wind. This is the willow's purpose."

"You well know the weakness there! Shield your son too much, Jessica, and he'll not grow strong enough to fulfill any destiny."

"In politics, the tripod is the most unstable of all structures."