As water shapes its flow in accordance with the ground, so an army manages its victory in accordance with the situation of the enemy.

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.

I say to the young, be happy that you were born in Italy because of the beauty of the human capital, both masculine and feminine, of this country... No other country has such human capital.

I know simply that the sky will last longer than I.

I know that the politics around trade can be very difficult - especially in an election year.

The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else.

I admire Laura Bush because she's the only librarian who would marry an illiterate.

Your decisions reveal your priorities

In the playoffs will beats skill.

I'm so sick of the water.

Don't let go too soon, but don't hold on too long.

Soundbite and slogan, strapline and headline, at every turn we meet hyperbole. The soaring inflation of the English language is more urgently in need of control than the economic variety.