Think on it, Chani: the princess will have the name, yet she'll live as less than a concubine - never to know a moment of tenderness from the man to whom she's bound. While we, Chani, we who carry the name of concubine - history will call us wives.

All proofs inevitably lead to propositions which have no proof! All things are known because we want to believe in them.

I am like a person whose hands were kept numb, without sensation from the first moment of awareness - until one day the ability to feel is forced into them. And I say "Look! I have no hands!" But the people all around me say: "What are hands?

the meeting between ignorance and knowledge, between brutality and culture - it begins in the dignity with which we treat the dead

There is not secret to balance. You just have to feel the waves.

I'm going to rub your faces in things you try to avoid. I don't find it strange that all you want to believe is only that which comforts you. How else do humans invent the traps which betray us into mediocrity? How else do we define cowardice?

Once human beings realize something can be done, they're not satisfied until they've done it.