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

Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

And always, he fought the temptation to choose a clear, safe course, warning 'That path leads ever down into stagnation.

A person cries out in life because it's lonely and because life's been broken off from whatever created it. But no matter how much you hate life, you love it too. It's like a caldron boiling with everything you have to have, but very painful to the lips.

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.

There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.

In my estimation, more misery has been created by reformers than by any other force in human history.