When the position is such that neither side will gain by making the first move, it is called temporising ground.

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.

A bear! I've landed on a wild and wicked bear!

Patience is a bitter plant but it has sweet fruit.

Not being given everything encourages you to create... That was one of the first steps for me learning to invent things.

The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power.

I think we have to understand that sugar is an essential component of food it's just that sugar in excess is an inappropriate and unhelpful diet.

Generosity is the best investment.

I walked along Nevsky Avenue.Actually it was more torture, humiliation, and bilious irritation than a stroll.

What is too often forgotten is that nature obviously intends the botched to die, and that every interference with that benign process is full of dangers.

Just me onstage with a mike having an intimate relationship with the audience. I don't get nervous for that. I just get excited.

People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.