thinking if you understand how unstable "the truth" can be. "Any man who retreats into a cave which has only one opening deserves to die." "Do not spend thoughts on a matter which has not been proved." A plan depends as much upon execution as it does upon concept. If you rely only on your eyes, your other senses weaken. "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 me I will turn to see fear's path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain." What do you despise? By this you are truly known. "You must be the carnivore, my boy. A carnivore never stops. Show no mercy. Never stop. Mercy is a chimera. It can be defeated by the stomach rumbling its hunger, by the throat crying it thirst. You must be always hungry and thirsty. Like me." At the age of fifteen, he had already learned silence. "Drink all your water," Paul said. "Axiom: the best place to conserve water is in your body. It keeps your energy up. You're stronger. Trust your still suit." We came from Caladan - a paradise world for our form of life. There existed no need on Caladan to build a physical paradise or a paradise of the mind - we could see the actuality all around us. And the