“The flesh surrenders itself. Eternity takes back its own. Our bodies stirred these waters briefly, danced with a certain intoxication before the love of life and self, dealt with a few strange idea...”

“Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost and replaced by vague ritual. -Words of Muad'dib by Princess Iru...”

“Constitutions become the ultimate tyranny," Paul said. "Theyre organized power on such a scale as to be overwhelming. The constitution is social power mobilized and it has no conscience. It can cru...”

“Deceit is a tool of statecraft," Irulan agreed."There are limits to power, as those who put their hopes in a constitution always discover," Paul said.”

“They are not mad. They're trained to believe, not to know. Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.”

“Some say," Scytale said, "that people cling to Imperial leadership because space is infinite. They feel lonely without a unifying symbol. For a lonely people, the Emperor is a definite place. They ...”

“I would not have imagined that love himself would have such a fatal blow this.”

“Romance only comes into existence where love is fatal, frowned upon and doomed by life itself.”

“The fatal problem with poetry: poems.”

“There is a lot of willful incompetence in solar industry that is in the process of coming to light.”

“For four years, I listened to stories of intelligence failures, and it wasn't due to incompetence of anyone in the system, but that the system is so arcane.”

“Management cares about only one thing. Paperwork. They will forgive almost anything else - cost overruns, gross incompetence, criminal indictments - as long as the paperwork's filled out properly. ...”

“One moment people should learn that they must find their answers not to ask but to find. In real life you can't always ask, if you are ask you show how much stupid are you really!”

“I didn't know who I was any longer, so I just was.”

“There are moments in relationship when you didn't speak, you didn't have to; but you talked a lot.”