Secret operations are essential in war; upon them the army relies to make its every move.

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.

A few nights later, I secretly hope that I might be a genius. Why else can no amount of sleeping pills fell my brain? But in the morning my daughter asks me what a cloud is and I cannot say.

I realized that for the time being I could not trust myself to present a coherent face to the world.

A writer's duty is to draw a picture that expresses more inner beauty, deeper anxiety, and more complex tragedy than a real character ever can.

I saw Tequila Sunrise as a romantic picture with complex, bigger than life characters.

Mankind has become so much one family that we cannot insure our own prosperity except by insuring that of everyone else.

We will save our sovereign rights as a nation.

In the Third World, there are 1.3 billion poor people. In other words, one out of every three inhabitants lives in poverty.

Remember the box fight: You start as a southpaw, you go back to fighting as a right-handed fighter.

By writing, you learn to write.

The most powerful person in the world is the story teller. The storyteller sets the vision, values and agenda of an entire generation that is to come.