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

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.

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

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

Do the unexpected, attack the unprepared.

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?

Cats – by day the most docile of God’s creatures, every one of them in the night enlisting under the devil’s banner – took the place by storm after the human voice had ceased.

You only get back what you put in

You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or not to be.

After losing everything, I went on a quest to find out how money really works, how I could get control of it, and how I could have confidence in handling it.

Habitats keep evolving new pageants of species, and we shouldn't interfere.

Education is the cornerstone of liberty.

I'm not a great collaborator, to tell the truth.

As a man's salutations, so is the total of his character; in nothing do we lay ourselves so open as in our manner of meeting and salutation.

So evidently music was a killer app and is a killer app for computer and the Internet; it just took the tech industry a long time to hear that message.

No matter how much I prove and prod, I cannot quite believe in God; But oh, I hope to God that He, Unswervingly believes in me.