Education is no substitute for intelligence.

The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and meets resistance.

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.

We can say that Maud'Dib learned rapidly because his first training was in how to learn. And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn.

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

Humans live best when each has his place, when each knows where he belongs in the scheme of things. Destroy the place and destroy the person.

What has mood to do with it? You fight when the necessity arises—no matter the mood! Mood's a thing for cattle or making love or playing the baliset. It's not for fighting.