All warfare is based on deception. There is no place where espionage is not used. Offer the enemy bait to lure him.

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.

Religion (Dharma) begins with an obliging nature.

Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death. The higher the interest rate and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed

I don't want to think about how many people have thought or still think that I'm crazy.

I was a writer before 'Eat, Pray, Love,' and I'll be a writer after it's over. It's what I want to do for the rest of my life.

I was one of the first three black students to go to an all-white school in Tennessee.

The answer, of course, in the mouth of a Christian teacher is that in Christianity alone is there both present joy and future hope.

One had to immerse oneself in one's surroundings and intensely study nature or one's subject to understand how to recreate it.

To be a great leader, you must be a great listener

Once you've raced, you never forget it...and you never get over it.

I love the business of pro wrestling and it is something I know better than anything else I know about.