To die with elation is a crappy way of dying... A warrior dies the hard way. His death must struggle to take him. A warrior does not give himself to it.

Power rests on the kind of knowledge one holds. What is the sense of knowing things that are useless?

If your tendency is to make sense out of chaos, start chaos.

The only thing that is real is the being in you that is going to die.

I too did not want to take the path of a warrior. I believed that all that work was for nothing, and since we are all going to die what difference would it make to be a warrior? I was wrong. But I had to find that out for myself. Whenever you do realize that you are wrong, and that it certainly makes a world of difference, you can say that you are convinced. And then you can proceed by yourself. Any by yourself you may even become a man of knowledge

A warrior thinks of death when things become unclear. The idea of death is the only thing that tempers our spirit.

...the spirit reveals itself to everyone with the same intensity and consistency, but only warriors are consistently attuned to such revelations.