the sleeper must awaken.

Ultimately, all things are known because you want to believe you know.

The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in.

Answers are a perilous grip on the universe. They can appear sensible yet explain nothing.

One uses power by grasping it lightly. To grasp too strongly is to be taken over by power, and thus to become its victim.

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.

Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.