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

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

... a warrior knows that he cannot change, and yet he makes it his business to try to change, even though he knows that he won't be able to. That's the only advantage a warrior has over the average man. The warrior is never disappointed when he fails to change.

Let's say that when every one of us is born we bring with us a little ring of power. That little ring is almost immediately put to use. So every one of us is already hooked from birth and our rings of power are joined to everyone else's. In other words, our rings of power are hooked to the doing of the world in order to make the world.

Life in itself is sufficient, self-explanatory and complete.

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

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