Personal history must be constantly renewed by telling parents, relatives, and friends everything one does. On the other hand, for the warrior who has no personal history, no explanations are needed; nobody is angry or disillusioned with his acts. And above all, no one pins him down with their thoughts and their expectations.

Power rests on the kind of knowledge one holds. What is the sense of knowing things that are useless?

I'm afraid you will have to fly holding the rock with its heavy chain.

Heightened awareness is a mystery only for a reason.

For my teachers, unfortunately, certain things were, as they are for you, only tales of power

An average man is too concerned with liking people or with being liked himself. A warrior likes, that's all. He likes whatever or whomever he wants, for the hell of it.

Modern man has left the realm of the unknown and the mysterious, and has settled down in the realm of the functional. He is turned is back to the world of the foreboding and the exulting and has welcomed the world of boredom.