Fighting with a large army under your command is nowise different from fighting with a small one: it is merely a question of instituting signs and signals.

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.

There is nothing good or bad, except by comparison" (209) - "Effort is Everything" by Bud Selig

There had only ever been two roads home: there was the long road and there was the sea road, and tonight I would take the sea road.

The novel is dead. Long live the antinovel, built from scraps.

All anybody needs to know about prizes is that Mozart never won one.

Men are good. But they are poor victims making themselves miserable under the false belief that they are doing good.

I feel like people didn't understand where I was about to go. And a lot of people still don't.

Instead of spending money, I earned it.

The fact is I have never been convicted of a crime.

You say that in heaven there is eternal beauty. The eternal beauty is here and now, not in heaven.

The thing that interests me is the good and evil in everybody. I don't have conventional heroes in the films that I directed, because I believe there's good and evil in everybody.