To accept a little death is worse than death itself.

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.

Dean: Don't you find that somewhat of an aberration? Doesn't this disturb you my dear? After all, it's not normal. Molly: I know it's not normal for people in this world to be happy, and I'm happy.

If the storm forgets to bring a rainbow, paint your own.

Adam lived 930 years. He never got to know his mother in law.

I don't want anything to get in the way of me and my singing. I want my mind as clear as possible.

Too much success gets you resting on your laurels and creates a kind of quicksand that you can't get out of.

skulduggery pleasant is the best book I've ever read and has enspired myself to become an author.

If we communicated with something like music, we would never be misunderstood, because there is nothing in music to understand.

The American public is somewhat ambivalent about what they expect out of thenational forest.

Genealogy: A perverse preoccupation of those who seek to demonstrate that their forebears were better people than they are.

What you really want to do in investments is figure out what's important and knowable. If it's unimportant or unknowable you forget about it.