The scarce water of Dune is an exact analog of oil scarcity. CHOAM is OPEC.

Governments can be useful to the governed only so long as inherent tendencies toward tyranny are restrained.

Educational bureaucracies dull a child's questing sensitivity.

Caution is the path to mediocrity. Gliding, passionless mediocrity is all that most people think they can achieve.

If enough of us believe, a new thing can be made to exist. Belief structure creates a filter through which chaos is sifted into order.

For now is my grief heavier than the sands of the seas, she thought. This world has emptied me of all but the oldest purpose: tomorrow's life.

What are you, child, that you need time to learn about yourself?