When a warrior learns to stop the internal dialogue, everything becomes possible; the most far-fetched schemes become attainable.

A man goes to knowledge as he goes to war: wide-awake, with fear, with respect, and with absolute assurance. Going to knowledge or going to war in any other manner is a mistake, and whoever makes it might never live to regret it

The average man is hooked to his fellow men, while the warrior is hooked only to infinity.

To seek the perfection of the warrior's spirit is the only task worthy of our temporariness, our manhood.

Our senses perceive the way they do because a specific feature of our awareness forces them to do so...because we learn what to perceive.

The self-confidence of the warrior is not the self-confidence of the average man. The average man seeks certainty in the eyes of the onlooker and calls that self-confidence. The warrior seeks impeccability in his own eyes and calls that humbleness. The average man is hooked to his fellow men, while the warrior is hooked only to infinity.

One can say that the nagual accounts for creativity. The nagual is the only part of us that can create.