If it helps you, brag about it. But it doesn't make you any better than I am

Forget the self and you will fear nothing, in whatever level or awareness you find yourself to be.

All of us, whether or not we are warriors, have a cubic centimeter of chance that pops out in front of our eyes from time to time. The difference between an average man and a warrior is that the warrior is aware of this, and one of his tasks is to be alert, deliberately waiting, so that when his cubic centimeter pops out he has the necessary speed, the prowess, to pick it up.

I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them.

Conceit may puff a man up, but never prop him up. - John Ruskin,

Infatuated, half through conceit, half through love of my art, I achieve the impossible working as no one else ever works.