"

"Not for the father." And the old woman had waved Jessica to silence, looked down at Paul. "Grave this on your memory, lad: A world is supported by four things...." she held up four big-knuckled fingers. "...the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the righteous and the valor of the brave.  But all of these are as nothing..." She closed her fingers into a fist. "... without a ruler who knows the art of ruling.  Make that the science of your tradition."

"

-- Gaius Helen Mohiam

Dune 1:4:40

"

"We're not here to bandy words or quibble over their meaning," the old woman said. "The willow submits to the wind and prospers until one day it is many willows--a wall against the wind.  This is the willow's purpose."

"

-- Gaius Helen Mohiam

Dune 1:3:81

"

"And be damned to me?" She smiled wryly, a crisscross of wrinkles in the old face. "Very well: 'That which submits rules.' "

"

-- Gaius Helen Mohiam

Dune 1:3:78

"

"It should be one of the test," the old woman said. "Humans are almost always lonely.  Now summon the boy.  He's had a long frightening day.  But he's had time to think and remember, and I must ask the other questions about these dreams of his."

"

-- Gaius Helen Mohiam

Dune 1:3:44

"

The old woman's voice softened. "Jessica, girl, I wish I could stand in your place and take your sufferings. But each of us must make her own path."

"

-- Gaius Helen Mohiam

Dune 1:3:38

"

"Shield!" the old woman snapped. "You well know the weakness there! Shield your son too much, Jessica, and he'll not grow strong enough to fulfill any destiny."

"

-- Gaius Helen Mohiam

Dune 1:3:34

"

"I see in the future what I've seen in the past. You well know the pattern of our affairs, Jessica. The race knows its own mortality and fears stagnation of it heredity. It's in the bloodstream--the urge to mingle genetic strains without plan.  The Imperium, the CHOAM Company, all the Great Houses, they are but bits of flotsam in the path of the flood."

"

-- Gaius Helen Mohiam

Dune 1:3:22

"

Presently, the old woman muttered: "What's done is done."
"I vowed never to regret my decision," Jessica said.

"

-- conversation between Gaius Helen Mohiam  and Lady Jessica

Dune 1:3:17-18

"

The Reverend Mother returned her attention to Paul. "You did that on remarkably few clues," she said. "Politics indeed. The original Bene Gesserit school was directed by those who saw the need of a thread of continuity in human affairs. They saw there could be no such continuity without separating human stock from animal stock--for breeding purposes."

"

-- Gaius Helen Mohiam

Dune 1:1:149

"'Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a man's mind,'" Paul quoted.
"Right out of the Butlerian Jihad and the Orange Catholic Bible," she said. "But what the O.C. Bible should've said is: 'Thou shalt not make a machine to counterfeit a human mind.' Have you studied the Mentat in your service?"

-- Paul Atreides and Gaius Helen Mohiam

Dune 1:1:140-141

"Pain," she sniffed. "A human can override any nerve in the body."

-- Gaius Helen Mohiam

Dune 1:1:111

"Teaching is one thing," she said, "the basic ingredient is another. We shall see."

--  Gaius Helen Mohiam

Dune 1:1:50

"But Royalty has need of slyness."

-- as spoken by Gaius Helen Mohiam pertaining to Paul Atreides

Dune 1:1:9