A warrior acts as if he knows what he is doing, when in effect he knows nothing.

Dwelling upon the self too much produces terrible fatigue. A man in that position is deaf and blind to everything else. The fatigue itself makes him cease to see the marvels all around.

Any path is only a path, and there is no affront to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you.

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

If a warrior is to succeed at anything, the success must come gently, with a great deal of effort but with no stress or obsession.

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.

My benefactor told me that my father and mother had lived and died just to have me, and that their own parents had done the same for them. He said that warriors were different in that they shift their assemblage points enough to realize the tremendous price that has been paid for their lives. This shift gives them the respect and awe that their parents never felt for life in general, or for being alive in particular.