The person who takes the banal and ordinary and illuminates it in a new way can terrify. We do not want our ideas changed.

Religion must remain an outlet for people who say to themselves, "I am not the kind of person I want to be." It must never sink into an assemblage of the self-satisfied.

Guilt starts as a feeling of failure.

Fear is the penalty of consciousness forced to stare at itself.

A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.

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.

Beaurocracy destroys initiative.