If all those around you believe some particular thing, you will soon be tempted to share in that belief.

He who controls the spice controls the universe.

There is in each of us an ancient force that takes and an ancient force that gives. A man finds little difficulty facing that place within himself where the taking force dwells, but it's almost impossible for him to see into the giving force without changing into something other than man. For a woman, the situation is reversed. ... These things are so ancient within us that they're ground into each separate cell of our bodies... It's as easy to be overwhelmed by giving as by taking.

It was mostly sweet," he whispered, "and you were the sweetest of all.

Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind.

The universe does not work by our rules

There is probably no more terrible instant of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man - with human flesh.