The wise win before they fight, while the ignorant fight to win.

Those who are skilled in combat do notbecome angered, those who are skilled at winning do not become afraid. Thus the wise win before they fight, while the ignorant fight to win.

First organize the inner, then organize the outer ... First organize the great, then organize the small. First organize yourself, and then organize others.

There is no greater weapon than a prepared mind.

An enlightened ruler doesnot worry about people not knowing him; he worriesabout not knowing people.

Do the unexpected, attack the unprepared.

Detach from emotions and desires; get rid of any fixations.

Nothing is harder to see into thanpeoples nature. The sage looks at subtle phenomena and listens tosmall voices. This harmonizes the outside with the inside and the inside with the outside.

Good generals select intelligent officers, thoughtful advisors, and brave subordinates. They oversee their troops like a fierce tiger with wings.

The loss of any army is always caused by underestimating the enemy. Therefore gather information and watch the enemy carefully.

What loss is there in dignity, what worry is there of failure?

the truth is not supposed to free you from the truth, just from everything else

Candor and accountability in a democracy is very important. Hypocrisy has no place.

To be called one thing, is oftentimes to be another.

Hypnosis is a powerful force and in my opinion should be employed only by the best-trained and most ethical professionals for very important reasons.

He really wished she would stop fingering the brick.

Responsibility can never be given. It can only be taken.

Conscription is the vitality of a nation, the purification of its morality, and the real foundations of all its habits

Do search, but in order to find other than what is searched for.

Here is what we know after more than a decade of Republican rule: Texas works. Even 'The New York Times' let it slip into its pages that, 'Texas is the future.'