Dune

"Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow, creeps in this petty pace from day to day."

"How strange it is that a man can slay his enemy with far greater ease than he can say he was wrong."

"Arrakis teaches the attitude of the knife—chopping off what's incomplete and saying: 'Now it's done.'"

"The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience."

"There is truth in wine and children."

"The willow knows things the oak does not."

"A man's flesh is his own responsibility."

"You've heard of animals chewing off a leg to escape a trap?"

"Beginnings are such delicate times."

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

"When you can flatten the anger from your voice, we'll begin the real lessons."

"Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere."

"Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens."

"The spice must flow."

"You must learn to see."

"Patience. We shall see."

"I am the son of a Duke. More—I am the grandson of a Duke."

"Much that was anticipated has come to pass, and much that was unanticipated has also come to pass."

"He who controls the spice controls the universe."

"Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration."

"What I am is what I choose to become."

"Existence itself is a test we did not choose."

"The future cannot be known, but it can be shaped."

"A man may be noble and still be weak."

"Our universe requires a dictatorship to function at all."

"To be a leader is to bear the weight of a thousand souls."

"Every man carries the seeds of his own destruction."

"I have crossed the threshold and I cannot return."

"The desert teaches what books cannot."

"We are the ones who have seen beyond the veil of sand."