We Bene Gesserit sift people to find the humans.

Many things we do naturally become difficult only when we try to make them intellectual subjects. It is possible to know so much about a subject that you become totally ignorant.

To endure oneself may be the hardest task in the universe.

The best contribution one can make to humanity is to improve oneself.

Blood is thicker than water, but politics are thicker than blood.

There has never been a truly selfless rebel, just hypocrites—conscious hypocrites or unconscious hypocrites, it’s all the same.

I give you the chameleon, whose ability to blend itself into the background tells you all you need to know about the roots of ecology and the foundations of a personal identity