“A warrior never worries about his fear.”

“We hardly ever realize that we can cut anything out of our lives, anytime, in the blink of an eye.”

“A warrior acts as if he knows what he is doing, when in effect he knows nothing.”

“To be a warrior is not a simple matter of wishing to be one. It is rather an endless struggle that will go on to the very last moment of our lives. Nobody is born a warrior, in exactly the same way that nobody is born an average man. We make ourselves into one or the other.”

“Nothing in this world is a gift. Whatever must be learned must be learned the hard way.”

“The internal dialogue is what grounds people in the daily world. The world is such and such or so and so, only because we talk to ourselves about its being such and such and so and so. The passageway into the world of shamans opens up after the warrior has learned to shut off his internal dialogue.”