Quotes from Brian Herbert, House Harkonnen

No one has yet determined the power of the human species . . . what it may perform by instinct, and what it may accomplish with rational determination.

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.

The universe is our picture. Only the immature imagine the cosmos to be what they think it is.

Discovery is dangerous . . . but so is life. A man unwilling to take risk is doomed never to learn, never to grow, never to live.