All wars are won or lost before they are ever fought.

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.

Would you rather die with honor intact or live with it besmirched?

Life can sometimes get the best of you but your state of mind determines your outcome.

Here's what I've learned: that someone can change the course of history with a box cutter.

The future may require not so much having a new idea as stopping having an old idea.

You left me boundaries of pain Capacious as the sea, Between eternity and time, Your consciousness and me.

Germany and France are pinning their hopes on young people, in terms of education, science and innovation.

You basically have to play everything (in New Orleans), because you're getting calls to play gigs of all different styles, from classical to R&B to funk; modern jazz to traditional jazz.

Being in the Spice Girls was an insane experience.

Freedom is still the most radical idea of all.

Moderates want their faith respected. They don't want faith itself criticized, and yet faith itself is what is bringing us all this - this lunacy.