Ambitions Tend To Remain Undisturbed By Realities.

We Never Completely Escape The Teachers Of Our Childhood Nor Any Of The Patterns That Formed Us.

Many Have Marked The Speed With Which Muad'dib Learned The Necessities Of Arrakis. The Bene Gesserit, Of Course, Know The Basis Of This Speed. For The Others, 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. It Is Shocking To Find How Many People Do Not Believe They Can Learn, And How Many More Believe Learning To Be Difficult. Muad'dib Knew That Every Experience Carries Its Lesson.

When I Am Weaker Than You, I Ask You For Freedom Because That Is According To Your Principles; When I Am Stronger Than You, I Take Away Your Freedom Because That Is According To My Principles.

Atrocity Never Balances Or Rectifies The Past. Atrocity Merely Arms The Future For More Atrocity.

To Come Under Siege Was The Inevitable Fate Of Power.