When you start a fire, be to windward of it. Do not attack from the leeward.

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.

the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.

Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.

Thus it is that in war the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory has been won, whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for victory.

Attack him where he is unprepared, appear where you are not expected.

He will win who, prepared himself, waits to take the enemy unprepared.

The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy.

Therefore, just as water retains no constant shape, so in warfare there are no constant conditions.

When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard.

Great results, can be achieved with small forces.

There aren’t any ‘relative’ (worldly) things that is worth inviting. So what is worth inviting? The ‘place’ where we have to go is worth knowing.

It's really important to draw the line on what we do as actors.

Young people drift away from society because, in many cases, they have no hope or goals. So, hope will have to be given to the young.

The public buys the most at the top and the least at the bottom.

The name Bowie just appealed to me when I was younger. I was into a kind of heavy philosophy thing when I was 16 years old, and I wanted a truism about cutting through the lies and all that.

The right to express our thoughts means something only if we are able to have thoughts of our own

A different world can be created or re-created-but not until we stop enshrining the economic values of invisible labor, infinite and obsessive growth, and a slow environmental suicide.

Those who hate most fervently must have once loved deeply; those who want to deny the world must have once embraced what they now set on fire.

I think kids need to be allowed to be more creative and learn more about artists these days, so I'm all about that.

The only thing about my life that's really changed is the fact that a lot of people know me now. I'm still the same person.