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.

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.

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

Begin each day with a positive thought and a grateful heart.

Continuous understanding goes with love, courage, respect, discovery and acceptance of mistakes.

Some people are born with a fire inside them. The will to succeed. It isn’t a learned behavior. It’s just some unknown biological factor that makes them try harder.

Everything I like is either illegal, immoral or fattening.

Freedom requires that government keep the channels of competition and opportunity open, prevent monopolies, economic abuse and domination.

Tell me, who are you, alone, yourself and nameless?

The Babe is one fellow, and I'm another and I could never be exactly like him. I don't try, I just go on as I am in my own right.

Fashion people think that the careful Nice companies are boring beyond measure. (Nice people think fashionistas look silly and should Get A Life).

The United States, for all its faults, is till the greatest nation in the country.

Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.