Will is what can make you succeed when your thoughts tell you that you're defeated.

For me the world is weird because it is stupendous, awesome, mysterious, unfathomable; my interest has been to convince you that you must assume responsibility for being here, in this marvelous world, in this marvelous desert, in this marvelous time. I want to convince you that you must learn to make every act count, since you are going to be here for only a short while, in fact, too short for witnessing all the marvels of it.

If you were a warrior, you would know that the worst thing one can do is confront human beings directly.

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

All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!

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.

For an instant I think I saw. I saw the loneliness of man as a gigantic wave which had been frozen in front of me, held back by the invisible wall of a metaphor.