A creature who has spent his life creating one particular representation of his selfdom will die rather than become the antithesis of that representation

It is shocking to find how many people do not believe they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult. Muad'Dib knew that every experience carries its lesson

Kindness is the beginning of cruelty

“Justice belongs to those who claim it, but let the claimant beware lest he create new injustice by his claim and thus set the bloody pendulum of revenge into its inexorable motion

Here lies a fallen god His fall was not a small one, We did but build his pedestal An narrow and a tall one

Wealth is a tool of freedom, but the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery

The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action

When law and duty are one, united by religion, you never become fully conscious, fully aware of yourself. You are always a little less than an individual

Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker

The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand