Leto turned a hard stare at Kynes. And Kynes, returning the stare, found himself troubled by a fact he had observed here: This Duke was concerned more over the men than he was over the spice. He risked his own life, and that of his son to save the men. He passed off the loss of a spice crawler with a gesture. The threat to men's lives had him in a rage. A leader such as that would command fanatic loyalty. He would be difficult to defeat. Against his own will and all previous judgements, Kynes admitted to himself: I like this Duke.

The power to destroy a thing is the absolute control over it.

Humans are almost always lonely.

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

I'm the well-trained fruit tree. Full of well-trained feelings and abilities and all of them grafted onto me

Every civilization depends upon the quality of the individuals it produces.

A leader is one of the things that distinguishes a mob from a people. He maintains the level of individuals. Too few individuals and a people reverts to a mob.