Frank Herbert

Human beings can always improve themselves. This is one of the advantages they have over thinking machines... until I find the way to mimic all of their senses. And sensibilities.

War: A manufactory that produces desolation, death, and secrets.

Like many culinary delicacies, revenge is a dish best savored slowly, after long and delicate preparation.

The Fremen have a saying: every faintly evil thought must be put aside immediately before it takes root.

Anger is one thing, violence another.

The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future.

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.

Try looking into that place where you dare not look! You'll find me there, staring out at you!

Life improves the capacity of the environment to sustain life. Life makes needed nutrients more readily available. It binds more energy into the system through the tremendous chemical interplay form organism to organism.

It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.

An Emperor's slightest dislike is transmitted to those who serve him, and there it is amplified into rage.

There is in all things a pattern that is part of our universe. It has symmetry, elegance, and grace - those qualities you find always in that which the true artist captures. You can find it in the turning of the seasons, in the way sand trails along a ridge, in the branch clusters of the creosote bush or the pattern of its leaves. We try to copy these patterns in our lives and our society, seeking the rhythms, the dances, the forms that comfort. Yet, it is possible to see peril in the finding of ultimate perfection. It is clear that the ultimate pattern contains it own fixity. In such perfection, all things move toward death.