The Great Dune Trilogy

by Frank Herbert

“How could you win the loyalty of such men?” “There are proven ways: play on the certain knowledge of their superiority, the mystique of secret covenant, the esprit of shared suffering. It can be done. It has been done on many worlds in many times.”

And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn. It is shocking to find how many people do not believe they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult.

One cannot truly blame them for this; one can only despise them.”

“Is any woman worth fighting over?” she asked. By uttering the words, by being there, she made herself infinitely worth their fighting.

“Beginnings are such delicate times.”

“But this being has human shape, Gurney, and deserves human doubt.”

“There are problems in this universe for which there are no answers,”