If a warrior wants to pay back for all the favors he has received, and he has no one in particular to address his payment to, he can address it to the spirit of man, That's always a very small account, and whatever one puts in it is more than enough.

Crows are not always available to give warning.

We are men and our lot in life is to learn and to be hurled into inconceivable new worlds.

It doesn't matter how one was brought up. What determines the way one does anything is personal power.

A warrior lives by acting, not by thinking about acting, nor by thinking about what he will think when he has finished acting.

My benefactor used to say the seeds are the 'sober head' -- the only part that could fortify the heart of man.

For a warrior, to be inaccessible means that he touches the world around him sparingly. And above all, he deliberately avoids exhausting himselfand others. He doesn't use and squeeze people until they have shriveled to nothing, especially the people he loves.