What is important for a leader is that which makes him a leader. It is the needs of his people.

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

There should be a science of discontent. People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

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.

When he wanted, he could radiate charm and sincerity, but I often wonder in these later days if anything about him was as it seemed. I think now he was a man fighting constantly to escape the bars of an invisible cage.

Sympathy for the enemy -- a weakness of police and armies alike. Most perilous are the unconscious sympathies directing you to preserve your enemy intact because the enemy is your justification for existence.

Small souls who seek power over others first destroy the faith those others might have in themselves.