Most men go through life unchallenged, except at the final moment.

We never completely escape the teachers of our childhood nor any of the patterns that formed us.

I have no fear, for fear is the little death that kills me over and over. Without fear, I die but once.

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.

If you focus your awareness only upon your own rightness, then you invite the forces of opposition to overwhelm you.

A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.

Every civilization must contend with an unconscious force which can block, betray, or countermand almost any conscious intention of the collectivity.