One hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the most skillful, subduing the other's military without battle is the most skillful.

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.

Listen. To live is to be marked. To live is to change, to acquire the words of a story, and that is the only celebration we mortals really know. In perfect stillness, frankly, I've only found sorrow.

How can one love the light and live in darkness?

This is every writer's nightmare - the sudden breakdown of meaning in the language that sustains and supports us.

I am what I am, everything I wanna be

There's a point, you know, where treachery is so complete and unashamed that it becomes statesmanship.

Love is the pursuit of shadows.

It's not easy to juggle a pregnant wife and a troubled child, but somehow I managed to fit in eight hours of TV a day.

When I speak to people from Britain, that's when I feel like a fake, speaking with an American accent.

When you bluff, someone may call you on it.

The evening advanced. The shadows lengthened. The waters of the lake grew pitchy black. The gliding of the ghostly swans became rare and more rare.