Think you of the fact that a deaf person cannot hear. Then, what deafness may we not all possess? What senses do we lack that we cannot see and cannot hear another world all around us?

All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities.

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.

Knowing where the trap is-- that's the first step in evading it.

One uses power by grasping it lightly. To grasp too strongly is to be taken over by power, and thus to become its victim.

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

It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.