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

“A warrior doesn’t know remorse for anything he has done, because to isolate one’s acts as being mean, or ugly, or evil is to place an unwarranted importance on the self.”

“A warrior takes responsibility for his acts, for the most trivial of acts. An average man acts out his thoughts, and never takes responsibility for what he does.”

“A rule of thumb for a warrior is that he makes his decisions so carefully that nothing that may happen as a result of them can surprise him, much less drain his power.”

“A warrior thinks of death when things become unclear. The idea of death is the only thing that tempers our spirit.”

“A warrior lives by acting, not by thinking about acting, nor by thinking about what he will think when he has finished acting.”