Any man who retreats into a cave which has only one opening deserves to die.

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.

There's something more surprising than becoming a bestseller, and that's receiving messages of hate by other fellow authors.

Learning to love my inner and outer beauty wasn't an easy road. I still don't always love the reflection I see in the mirror, but I have learned that my outer appearance does not define me.

My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight.

I am quite an early riser - I usually get up between 5.30 and 6am and take the dogs out.

I need to keep it spontaneous as an artist, so for me to repeat a face would be redundant and boring.

Ive tried to write deep and serious. I spent years working to write a story that would make my writing group cry.

Where else, in a non-totalitarian country, but in the political profession is the individual expected to sacrifice all-including his own career-for the national good?

Is love stronger when it let's go or when it holds on?

My name may be Thom Yorke, but only I can call me Thom Yorke.

I never felt pressured to create more stories, but dealing with people became really aggravating.