Dune - Frank Herbert

"I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see it's path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain

"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 ... Muad'Dib knew that every experience carries its lesson."

"Command must always look confident, he thought. All that faith riding on your shoulders while you sit in the critical seat and never show it."

"There is probably no more terrible instant of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man -- with human flesh."

"Mood's a thing for cattle or for making love. You fight when the necessity arises, no matter your mood"

"He tells us 'The vision of time is broad, but when you pas through it, time becomes a narrow door.' And always, he fought the temptation to choose a clear, safe course, warning 'That path leads ever down into stagnantion.'"

"What do you despise? By this you are truly known"

"The mind can go either direction under stress -- towards positive or towards negative; on or off. Think of it as a spectrum whose extremes are unconsciousness at the negative end and hyperconsciousness at the positive end. The way the mind will lean under stress is strongly influenced by training."

"How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him."

"The power to destroy a thing is the absolute control over it."

"Knowing where the trap is ... that's the first step in evading it"