Should the enemy forestall you in occupying a pass, do not go after him if the pass is fully garrisoned, but only if it is weakly garrisoned.

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.

Meditation becomes easier if you drop all your ambitions and desires.

The independence of the economic sphere was a tenet of faith with Liberalism.

Better to learn wisdom from other people's misfortunes than from your own.

I hate people who over intellectualize. It bores me deeply.

Life was a series of greetings and farewells, one was always saying good-bye to something, to someone.

I protest against any absolute conclusion.

To have 95% of the ingredients sourced, food and wine, within 100 miles radius, that's a dream come true for any chef.

There is no virtue inherent in un-constructive suffering.

In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.

Although I played a lot of computer games in my 20s, now I have children of my own I hate them with a passion.