Dune

"We shape our own reality through choice"

"The future is a thing of infinite complexity"

"A great man doesn't seek power; power seeks him"

"Spice is life itself on Arrakis"

"The desert teaches patience to those who listen"

"I am the son of a Duke—this is my sword"

"Madness is relative"

"The sleeper wakes to a desert of his own making"

"To endure is to change, and not to change is to cease to exist"

"What is money if it cannot buy what you need?"

"The design of a thing revels the thing itself"

"A person is smart. People are dumb"

"There is no escape—we pay for the violence of our ancestors"

"You have more potential in your little finger than most men have in their entire bodies"

"The sleeper must awaken because the universe demands it"

"Let us say I have this itch—it moves around, but when I scratch where it itches, I find nothing there"

"Arrakis is the key to the universe"

"In the beginning, there was only the desert"

"The ornithopter wobbled as its sand-wings beat against the atmosphere"

"To know the future absolutely is to be trapped by it as surely as in any prison"

"Survival is the ability to swim in strange water"

"Political intrigue makes a safer hobby than space travel"

"Paul saw the trap then, the obligation to succeed"

"When you can move things with your mind, then you'll be Bene Gesserit"

"I must not fear. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration"

"The sleeper has awakened"

"Humans are pattern-making creatures. It is our nature to impose order on chaos"

"All teaching is a process of recruitment"

"Politics is the business of arranging the survival of populations"

"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time"