The value of time, that is of being a little ahead of your opponent, often provides greater advantage than superior numbers or greater resources.

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.

Consistency in action is easy once you convert your daily disciplines and activities into habits.

Antonia was very conscious of the corrosive power of envy and felt that it was this emotion, more than any other, which lay behind human unhappiness. People did not realise how widespread envy was.

I don't like symbolism that hits you over the head. A symbol should not be a cymbal.

Life's full of opportunities to make crappy decisions that feel good. And after the first one, the rest get a whole lot easier.

We are a society that values a man for what he does in the world, a woman for how she looks.

The question in crisis or ordeal is not: Are you going to be an extremist? The question is: What kind of extremist are you going to be?

When you're a dancer, you start with the basics. You don't all of a sudden do a grand jete and pirouette. You start with first position, second, third.

Oh Lord, make me pure, but not yet.

Sanitised violence in movies has been accepted for years. What seems to upset everybody now is the showing of the consequences of violence.