You know it's love when you want to give joy and damn the consequences.

Arrakis teaches the attitude of the knife - chopping off what's incomplete and saying: "Now it's complete because it's ended here."

Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker.

Caution is the path to mediocrity.

When you think to take determination of your fate into your own hands, that is the moment you can be crushed. Be cautious.

There is only one true wealth in all the universe. I have given you some of it. I have given your father and your mate some of it. And your friends. This wealth is living time.

The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.