So it is that good warriors take their stance on ground where they cannot lose, and do not overlook conditions that make an opponent prone to defeat.

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.

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. Books, the oldest and the best, stand naturally and rightfully on the shelves of every cottage.

In order for a thing to be horrible it has to suffer a change you can recognize.

...It is a well known fact that most artists produce their best work early in their career. They may refine what they do but you usually get the measure of what they are about on their first outing.

Religion is more like a response to a friend than it is like obedience to an expert.

Every time I see David Giuntoli on set, it feels like there's a huge load off his shoulders, because when it's me, it's real and it's flirtatious and it seems like it's way more fun.

We're about to see an acceleration in technological platforms that, for marketers, will be on a scale rivalled only by the arrival of color TV.

The traitor to Humanity is the traitor most accursed; Man is more than Constitutions; better rot beneath the sod, Than be true to Church and State while we are doubly false to God.

Science fiction is, after all, the art of extrapolation.

The coaching profession doesn't hand you any gifts.

Thinking is not always...comforting. It is always good, but not always comforting. Royal Assassin