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.

The past is no farther away than your pillow.

When religion and politics ride in the same cart, the whirlwind follows.

Small souls who seek power over others first destroy the faith those others might have in themselves.

Argument closes off the doors of the senses. It always masks violence. Continued too long, argument always leads to violence.

If wishes were fishes, we'd all cast nets.

I don’t think it’s quite that simple. Some people never observe anything, Life just happens to them. They get by on little more than a kind of dumb persistence, and they resist with anger and resentment anything that might lift them out of that false serenity.