Each human being has the right to seek out joy, joy being understood as something which makes one content - not necessarily that which makes others content.

I must have no fear of failure. It was my fear of failure that first kept me from attempting the Master Work.

When you know how to use it, disobedience can be a virtue.

I'm alive. When I'm eating that's all I think about. If I'm on the march, I just concentrate on marching. If I have to fight,it will be just as good a day as any to die. If you can concentrate always on the present, you'll be a happy man. Life is the moment we are living now.

Even stopped clocks are right twice a day.

I knew it,’ she says. ‘I knew I had met you before. I knew it the first time I saw your photograph. It’s as if we had to meet again at some point in this life. I talked to my friends about it, but they thought I was crazy, that thousands of people must say the same thing about thousands of other people every day. I thought they must be right, but life… life brought you to me. You came to find me, didn’t you?

A Warrior does not go into battle without knowing the limitations of his ally.