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

The problem of leadership is inevitably: Who will play God?" Muad'Dib

Irreverence is a most necessary ingredient of religion. Not to speak of its importance in philosophy. Irreverence is the only way left to us for testing our universe.

To endure oneself may be the hardest task in the universe. You cannot hire a wise man or any other intellect to solve it for you. There's no writ of inquest or calling of witness to provide answers.

The willow submits to the wind and prospers until one day it is many willows - a wall against the wind.

Many have marked the speed with which Muad'Dib learned the necessities of Arrakis. The Bene Gesserit, of course, know the basis of this speed. For the others, we can say that Muad'Dib learned rapidly because his first training was in how to learn. And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn. It is shocking to find how many people do not believe they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult. Muad'Dib knew that every experience carries its lesson.

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