Of all those in the army close to the commander, none is more intimate than the secret agent.

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.

Socialism is an alternative to capitalism as potassium cyanide is an alternative to water.

People sometimes say, "What is your dream role?" I don't really have a dream role. I'll know it when I see it.

There is irreducible chance in the universe.

I probably have a different mental approach to swimming than most people. I actually enjoy training.

The only thing that is different from one time to another is what is seen and what is seen depends upon how everybody is doing everything.

The call to religion is not a call to be better than your fellows, but to be better than yourself. Religion is relative to the individual.

...Winter, the aged chief, Mighty in power, Exiles the tender leaf, Exiles the flower.

It's hard to say how time factors into your work, because sometimes things will come to you very quickly, but it will take years for the ideas to be gestating in your mind.

A British lawyer would like to think of himself as part of that mysterious entity called The Law; an American lawyer would like a swimming pool and two houses.