The supreme excellence is not to win a hundred victories in a hundred battles. The supreme excellence is to subdue the armies of your enemies without even having to fight them.

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 U.S. affirms freedom of speech.[Vladimir] Putin is no friend of freedom of speech.

To prolong doubt was to prolong hope.

I always like to have an atlas just so that I can find things out. It's always good to have an almanac; those sort of things.

I'll bring what I bring to the tale, but it's good to know you have two guys with the experience and know-how in big games.

The insecure way is the secure way.

I think you learn how to fall well when you're figure skating. Your reflexes are very acute.

I only know one yoga: 'You Go.'

Optimism is the secret of self-reliance. Self-reliance is the secret of a dynamic power. A dynamic power is the secret of an immediate success.

Where there is a will, there's prosperity around the corner.

The enemy of a writer is not controversy but obscurity.