Should one ask: 'how do I cope with a well-ordered enemy host about to attack me?' I reply: seize something he cherishes and he will conform to your desires.

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.

Liberty means refusing to allow some men to use the state to compel other men to serve their interests or opinion.

If there are damned souls in Hell, it is because men blind themselves.

I didn't feel that way about it. I had been playing with death for some time. I can't say we were the best of friends but we were well acquainted.

Publishers are in business to make money, and if your books do well they don't care if you are male, female, or an elephant.

Immortality is a by-product of good work.

Most of my work is okay to look at on a TV screen or a flat screen, but this is actually much better in a theatre.

Everyone is just nicer to prettier people.

I never really participated in specific sports or anything, but once I hit 40, I started to get a little bit more active and began swimming more.

The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.

It is not productive to see things in simple black and white, and talk in either anti-nuclear or pro-nuclear terms.