Balance is what distinguishs a people from a mob.

Do actions agree with words? There's your measure of reliability. Never confine yourself to the words.

The scarce water of Dune is an exact analog of oil scarcity. CHOAM is OPEC.

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.

You should never be in the company of anyone with whom you would not want to die.

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 basic lesson of our relativistic universe is that things change. Any power must always meet a greater power.