The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom.

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.

The truly revolutionary promise of our nation's founding document is the freedom to pursue happiness-with-a-capital-H.

An act of love is not an act for you and not for me. It is an act for you as well as for me. Love is for us.

I've been waiting for sleep to offer up the day with both hands.

My writing day has grown shorter as I've aged, although it seems to produce the same number of pages.

If everyone is getting money, no one is getting disrespected, and no one is getting hurt, no one should be arguing.

I was involved as deputy mayor in New York City on 9/11.

Makin' veterans run for medicine, Cause I put out more lights in a fight than ConEdison.

Disease increases in proportion to the increase in the number of doctors in a place.

The remedy for the abuse of free speech is more speech.

He was looking at her from behind the smiling that wasn't smiling but was something you were not supposed to see beyond.