I believe him, Dienekes. He's so fucking stupid, this is just the way he would skrew it up. - Steven Pressfield

Our job in this life is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it.

A warrior culture trains for adversity. Luxury and ease are the goals advertised to the civilian world.

I was thirty years old before I had an actual thought. Everything up till then was either what Buddhists call “monkey-mind” chatter or the reflexive regurgitation of whatever my parents or teachers said, or whatever I saw on the news or read in a book, or heard somebody rap about, hanging around the street corner.