When one has nothing to lose, one becomes courageous. We are timid only when there is something we can still cling to.

There are lots of things a warrior can do at a certain time which he couldn't do years before. Those things themselves did not change; what changed was his idea of himself.

It is best to erase all personal history because that would make us free from the encumbering thoughts of other people

The secret is not in what you do to yourself but rather in what you don't do.

There is nothing more lonely than eternity. And nothing is more cozy for us than to be a human being. This indeed is another contradiction-how can we keep the bonds of our humanness and still venture gladly and purposefully into the absolute loneliness of eternity?

A warrior must cultivate the feeling that he has everything needed for the extravagant journey that is his life. What counts for a warrior is being alive. Life in itself is sufficient, self-explanatory and complete. Therefore, one may say without being presumptuous that the experience of experiences is being alive.

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