When law and duty are one, united by religion, you never become fully conscious, fully aware of yourself. You are always a little less than an indivi… - Frank Herbert

"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 the beauties of living. Women know this more often than men because birth is the reflection of death."

"The future is a thing to be shaped," Scytale said. "Hold that thought, Princess."

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 Irulan.