A good commander is benevolent and unconcerned with fame.

Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.

Victory comes from finding opportunities in problems.

It is more important to outhink your enemy, than to outfight him

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.

the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.

He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight.

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.

Those who are victorious plan effectively and change decisively. They are like a great river that maintains its course but adjusts its flow.

Swift as the wind. Quiet as the forest. Conquer like the fire. Steady as the mountain

A leader leads by example not by force.

The women glare at each other. Grin. You have friends when you're fifteen years old. Sometimes you get them back.

regrets are stepping stone towards improvement

In order for us to have a future that's exciting and inspiring, it has to be one where we're a space-bearing civilization.

The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.

All life is related. And it enables us to construct with confidence the complex tree that represents the history of life

Give your heart to everybody you meet. The rest is pretense.

Mass becomes immobile; it cannot manoeuvre and therefore cannot win victories, it can only crush by sheer weight.

When you keep God in first place, He will take you to places you've never dreamed of

You will never find a better friend to the United States than Australia.

Earnestness is not by any means everything; it is very often a subtle form of pious pride because it is obsessed with the method and not with the Master.