Brian Herbert

Simplicity is the most difficult of all concepts.

It's so much more interesting to study a ... damaged world. I find it difficult to learn anything in a place that's too civilized.

The greatest and most important problems of life cannot be solved. They can
only be outgrown.

Life is filled with tests, one after another, and if you don't recognize them, you are certain to fail the most important ones.

Never underestimate the power of the human mind to believe what it wants to
believe, no matter the conflicting evidence.

My Sihaya,’ he said as he held her, ‘I have loved you for five thousand years.

If you surrender, you have already lost. If you refuse to give up, though, no
matter the odds against you, at least you have succeeded in trying.

Look inside yourself and you can see the universe.

Who is truly anyone? Every person is illusion to some degree.

Let pressure pass over and through you. That way you can't be harmed by it.

Any school for free citizens must begin by teaching distrust, not trust. It must teach questioning, not acceptance of stock answers.

Even the poorest House can be rich in loyalty. Allegiance that must be purchased by bribes or wages is hollow and flawed, and could break at the worst possible moment. Allegiance that comes from the heart, though, is stronger than adamantium and more valuable than purest melange.

We are trained to believe and not to know.

No person can ever know everything that is in the heart of another. We are
all Face Dancers in our souls.

Just repeating a statement often and with great vehemence does not make it a fact, and no amount of repetition can make a rational person believe it.