Look at me. I have no doubts or remorse. Everything I do is my decision and my responsibility. (Ixtlan, 62)

Don Juan speculated that if I were a young man and if I had followed my inclinations I would have ended up angry and remorseful, and would, no doubt, have spent the rest of my life feeling sorry for myself for what I had lost. (Ixtlan, 69)

One must assume responsibility for being in a weird world. We are in a weird world, you know.
For me the world is weird because it is stupendous, awesome, mysterious, unfathomable; my interest has been to convince you that you must assume responsibility for being here, in the marvelous world, in this marvelous desert, in this marvelous time. I wanted to convince you to make every act count. (Ixtlan, 107)

There are some people who are very careful of the nature of their acts, Their happiness is to act with the full knowledge that they don’t have time; therefore, their acts have a peculiar power; their acts have power especially when the person acting knows that those acts are his battle. There is a strange consuming happiness in acting with the full knowledge that whatever one is doing may very well be one’s last act on earth. I recommend that you reconsider your life and bring your acts into that light. (Ixtlan, 110)

Your acts cannot possibly have the flair, the power, the compelling force of acts performed by a man who knows that he is fighting his last battle on earth. (Ixtlan, 111)

Focus your attention on the link between you and your death, without remorse or sadness or worrying. Focus your attention on the fact that you don’t have the time and let your acts flow accordingly.
It’s only natural that his last act on earth should be the best of himself. Its pleasurable that way. It dulls the edge of his fright. (Ixtlan, 112)