"You have to appreciate life before you want to preserve it," she said. "And it's the survivors who maintain the most light and poignant hold upon t… - Frank Herbert

Since every individual is accountable ultimately to the self, the formation of that self demands our utmost care and attention.

I observed you in pain, lad. Pain’s merely the axis of the test. Your mother’s told you about our ways of observing. I see the signs of her teaching in you. Our test is crisis and observation.

We can say that Muad'Dib learned rapidly because his first training was in how to learn. And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn.