And therefore only the enlightened sovereign and the worthy general who are able to use the most intelligent people as agents are certain to achieve great things.

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.

When men allow other people to ridicule, laugh and jeer at the truth, that cannot but bring sorrow to the heart of God

Faith in God gives faith in self.

Books -where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables, as we did in Kansas

God can accomplish His plan, only if a man will be fully obedient to His will

As poor as a church mouse.

You just keep moving forward and doing what you do and hope that it resonates with people. And if it doesn't, you just keep moving on until you find a project that does.

Poetry is a dissociating and anarchic force which through analogy, associations and imagery, thrives on the destruction of known relationships.

The great drama of Russian history has been between its state and society. Put simply, Russia has always had too much state and not enough society.

Lots of old people don't become wise, but you don't get wise unless you age.

Friendship is a deep oneness that develops when two people, speaking the truth in love to one another, journey together to the same horizon.