Man has a dark side, yes, and it is called stupidity.

Fright never injures anyone. What injures the spirit is having someone always on your back, beating you, telling you what to do and what not to do

In the Art of Dreaming Don Juan tells Carlos, "... most of our energy goes into upholding our importance... if we were capable of losing some of that importance, two extraordinary things would happen to us. One, we would free our energy from trying to maintain the illusory idea of our grandeur; and two we would provide ourselves with enough energy to ... catch a glimpse of the actual grandeur of the universe."

You are like you are, because you tell yourself that you are that way.

This very rock where we're sitting is a rock because we have been forced to give out attention to it

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

Beware of those who weep with realization, for they have realized nothing.