Until death itself comes, no calamity need be feared

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.

Fear can't be reasoned with. Neither can hate. They're like love. They're almost identical emotions.

Once the blinders are off, it's rather hard to go back to seeing things the way you used to.

I loved 'Gladiator' when I was young. Russell Crowe was a big inspiration the fact that he plays my father in 'Noah' was amazing.

To those who despair of everything reason cannot provide a faith, but only passion, and in this case it must be the same passion that lay at the root of the despair, namely humiliation and hatred.

Every single day in a marriage, we influence each other. It is a matter of am I going to have a positive influence or a negative influence?

Restaurants are a wonderful escape for me. And are for a lot of people.

I exist in two places, here and where you are.

I want to make films that make people laugh hard, and I am not afraid to walk away from this business tomorrow.

The Westerns I like aren't really comedies. I'm drawn to the scope of them and the land as a central character.

We will meet; and there we may rehearse most obscenely and courageously.