Quickness is the essence of the war.

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.

My daughter emails me. When your daughter starts to email you instead of talk to you... It's horrible. You cannot forget human communication.

The only way to engineer the future tomorrow is to have lived in it yesterday.

We are born helpless. As soon as we are fully conscious we discover loneliness. We need others physically, emotionally, and intellectually. We need them if we are to know anything, even ourselves.

There is no power or authority without responsibility, and he who accepts the one cannot escape or evade the other.

The movies I made when I was 14 or 15, I have a hard time looking at those. Those were the awkward years. I don't know if anybody can look at something they did when they were 14 and not wince.

How much easier is it to be generous than just.

The Master acts without doing, and everything gets done.

Almost all the joyful things of life are outside the measure of IQ tests.

I was the Jane Roe of Roe vs. Wade, but Jane Roe has been laid to rest.

There should always be in sight the draw — a kind of a beacon that draws you on through the labyrinth.