No ruler should put troops into the field merely to gratify his own spleen; no general should fight a battle simply out of pique.

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.

Church was never meant to be a place for gods to gather, but for devils wanting to shed their horns for halos.

Home is where I work, and I work everywhere.

Isn't it funny the way some combinations of words can give you--almost apart from their meaning--a thrill like music?

I don't know who decided that skinny was more appealing than not skinny. It seems arbitrary.

It's a mystery to me what makes people laugh.

I am a very linear thinker, so I write beginning to end. I write hundreds of pages per book that never make it into print

And this is our time-keeper, with a passion for percussion

I came to see, in my time at IBM, that culture isn't just one aspect of the game; it is the game.

I have no memories I'm prepared to share with you.

There's got to be grief.