Control the coinage and the courts — let the rabble have the rest.

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

He who can destroy a thing, can control a thing.

When I was writing Dune there was no room in my mind for concerns about the book's success or failure. I was concerned only with the writing. Six years of research had preceded the day I sat down to put the story together, and the interweaving of the many plot layers I had planned required a degree of concentration I had never before experienced.

Truth suffers from too much analysis.

The Fremen were supreme in that quality the ancients called "spannungsbogen" -- which is the self-imposed delay between desire for a thing and the act of reaching out to grasp that thing.

Once human beings realize something can be done, they're not satisfied until they've done it.