War is a matter of vital importance to the state; the province of life or death; the road to survival or ruin. It is mandatory that it be thoroughly studied.

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.

If you would see a man's heart, knock him down. Then observe how he rises. If you would see his soul, do it a thousand times more.

It’s lovely when writers I like like each other.

Religious fanaticism and hatred are a world-devouring fire, whose violence none can quench.

Everyone is ready to receive this new blueprint. It's simple, easy, flowing. Nothing too complicated, and everyone will feel at home being able to come in and just receive this energy.

Cardboard is another material that's ubiquitous and everybody hates, yet when I made furniture with it everybody loved it.

If you have to ask how much it costs, you can't afford it.

The nature of a movie story is you have to keep charging forward and keep the audience with the story.

The less people think of you, the more they will reveal to you or in your presence.

The most fertile source of insight is hindsight.

When you add up the minutes you spend actually making a movie - the amount of time you spend actually doing your thing in front of a camera - it just isn't that much. But it's everything.