- “You have everything needed for the extravagant journey that is your life.”

- “We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.”

- “The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.”

- “A path is only a path, and there is no affront, to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you . . . Look at every path closely and deliberately. Try it as many times as you think necessary. Then ask yourself alone, one question . . . Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn't it is of no use.”

- “The basic difference between an ordinary man and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge while an ordinary man takes everything as a blessing or a curse.”

- “The aim is to balance the terror of being alive with the wonder of being alive.”

- “In a world where death is the hunter, my friend, there is no time for regrets or doubts. There is only time for decisions.”

- “A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting. ”

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

- “For me there is only the traveling on paths that have heart, on any path that may have heart, and the only worthwhile challenge is to traverse its full length--and there I travel looking, looking breathlessly.”