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

If a warrior needs solace he simply chooses anyone and expresses to that person every detail of his turmoil. After all, the warrior is not seeking to be understood or helped; by talking he's merely relieving himself of his pressure.

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

... a warrior could not avoid pain and grief but only the indulging in them

The ego is like a tired old dog. We can never kill it, so put it out on the back porch, let it rest there, and step around it.

All of us, whether or not we are warriors, have a cubic centimeter of chance that pops out in front of our eyes from time to time. The difference between an average man and a warrior is that the warrior is aware of this, and one of his tasks is to be alert, deliberately waiting, so that when his cubic centimeter pops out he has the necessary speed, the prowess, to pick it up.

... everything in the world is a force, a pull or a push. In order for us to be pushed or pulled we need to be like a sail, like a kite in the wind. But if we have a hole in the middle of our luminosity, the force goes through it and never acts upon us.