“Face your fears or they will climb over your back.”

“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 its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”

“Ready comprehension is often a knee-jerk response and the most dangerous form of understanding. It blinks an opaque screen over your ability to learn. Be warned. Understand nothing. All comprehension is temporary.”

“Piter spoke to Jessica. "I'd thought of binding you by a threat held over your son, but I begin to see that would not have worked. I let emotion cloud reason. Bad policy for a Mentat.”

“Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.”

“If you focus your awareness only upon your own rightness, then you invite the forces of opposition to overwhelm you.”

“You aren't thinking or really existing unless you're willing to risk even your own sanity in the judgement of your existence.”