Everyone's looking for the perfect teacher, but although their teachings might be divine, teachers are all too human, and that's something people find hard to accept. Don't confuse the teacher with the lesson, the ritual with the ecstasy, the transmitter of the symbol with the symbol itself.

A Warrior is never in a hurry.

I'm like everyone else—I see the world in terms of what I would like to see happen, not what actually does.

We must study things we will never use, but which someone told us were important to know.

It's natural to be afraid of replacing everything you already gained by a dream.

Everything which is done in the present, affects the future by consequence, and the past by redemption.

I will be able to love above all discontentment. To give even when I am stripped of everything. To dry tears even when I am still crying. To believe even when I am discredited.