“How do you put everyone in the pool, so you have the right to dry yourself in the sun?”

“When you come right down to it all you have is yourself. The sun is a thousand rays in your belly. All the rest is nothing.”

“You have described only too well," replied the Master, "where the difficulty lies...The right shot at the right moment does not come because you do not let go of yourself. You...brace yourself for failure. So long as that is so, you have no choice but to call forth something yourself that ought to happen independently of you, and so long as you call it forth your hand will not open in the right way--like the hand of a child.”

“If you put everyone else first you'll always be last, but if you always put yourself first you will never last.”

“It's very hard to stop doing things you're used to doing. You almost have to dismantle yourself and scatter it all around and then put a blindfold on and put it back together so that you avoid old habits.”

“You put yourself where you are, and if you find yourself unsatisfied with how you are, then get yourself out of it.”