Dune

"To suspect the best, to speak of it, to prepare it, to confirm it is the art of the politician"

"The universe is vast and a human life is nothing compared to it"

"Do you wrestle with dreams at night"

"The willow submits to the wind and prospers until one day it is many willows"

"A man is defined by the quality of his enemies"

"The future belongs to those who can imagine it before others do."

"In the end, politics is about power and the will to wield it."

"Cruelty has a natural end; it destroys itself."

"Men and women all through the universe are united by the common drive to understand their place in it."

"Truth requires courage to speak and wisdom to hear."

"Persistence is the art of appearing persistent."

"The capacity to learn is everything."

"A powerful person tends to move as though time follows the dictates of his will."

"The willow bends in the wind but does not break."

"The greatest danger exists in the assumption that others think as you do."

"I waited for you to understand what you must become."

"Betrayal is a knife that cuts both ways."

"The hegemony of nature ensures that survival is earned."

"Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense."

"To be nothing—and to be seen—is to be nothing."

"No monument of stone can stand against the passage of time."

"The mind commands the muscles directly. There is no room for malfunction."

"Knowledge of a particular evil does not lead automatically to tolerance of it."

"Peace is the period between wars."

"A true word spoken by someone wearing mask might be truth, or it might be the cruelest deception."

"The spice is the source and sink of all wealth."

"In the Fremen way, death waits for no man to be ready."

"Ambition and reality often travel different paths."

"A man is a creature that can get used to anything."

"Let the Future come with all its clamor."