970 Quotes by Frank Herbert

To the soul’s desires The body listens What the flesh requires Keeps the heart imprisoned.

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

God created Arrakis to train the faithful.

Leaders made mistakes. And those mistakes, amplified by the numbers who followed without questioning, moved inevitably toward great disasters.

It is said in the desert that possession of water in great amount can inflict a man with fatal carelessness.

I don’t worry about inspiration, or anything like that. It’s a matter of just sitting down and working.

The whole universe sat there, open to the man who could make the right decisions.

I must rule with eye and claw – as the hawk among lesser birds. – Duke Leto Atreides.

I’m the well-trained fruit tree, he thought. Full of well-trained feelings and abilities and all of them grafted onto me – all bearing for someone else to pick.