Frank Herbert

Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test it's a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain.

If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.

Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker.

Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.

Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

He who controls the spice controls the universe.