Place your army in deadly peril, and it will survive; plunge it into desperate straits, and it will come off in safety.

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.

If you have a rifle, hanging on the wall in the first act, it should fire in the last act”.

On a day when you're tired, it's important to just say good morning to everyone so they're kind of aware that it's gonna be a good day. Jamie Lee Curtis told me that.

President Bush should be indicted and should be driven out of office. He should be sent back home in Texas.

The cosmos is full beyond measure of elegant truths; of exquisite interrelationships; of the awesome machinery of nature.

I can see the sun, but even if I cannot see the sun, I know that it exists. And to know that the sun is there - that is living.

If it's a good script I'll do it. And if it's a bad script, and they pay me enough, I'll do it.

There are lots of stories about my culture that I think bring a whole other perspective to who we are and where we have been and how we got here that I think need to be done.

When you dont inherit an identity you have to define it on your own.

I don't have time to have friends come and stay, except on weekends in Maine. I invite a lot of people to come to Maine.

I have never written a book that was not born out of a question I needed to answer for myself.