A warrior, or any man for that matter, cannot possibly wish he were somewhere else; a warrior because he lives by challenge, an ordinary man because he doesn't know where his death is going to find him.

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

I too did not want to take the path of a warrior. I believed that all that work was for nothing, and since we are all going to die what difference would it make to be a warrior? I was wrong. But I had to find that out for myself. Whenever you do realize that you are wrong, and that it certainly makes a world of difference, you can say that you are convinced. And then you can proceed by yourself. Any by yourself you may even become a man of knowledge

The fate of all of us here has been to know that we are prisoners of power. No one knows why us in particular, but what a great fortune!

Heightened awareness is a mystery only for a reason.

Never take a path that has no heart in it. You can't lose if your heart is in your work, but you can't win if your heart is not in it.

A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.