The best victory is when the opponent surrenders of its own accord before there are any actual hostilities...It is best to win without fighting.

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.

Max: "You'll never be good enough to deserve her, you know."Ash: "God doesn't always give you what you deserve, " Ash said quietly. "Sometimes he gives you what you can't live without.

I figure if there is a God, She's good and surged right now about the state of things down here.

Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and tomorrow ain't as bad as it seems

All men naturally hate one another. I hold it a fact, that if men knew exactly what one says of the other, there would not be four friends in the world.

So long as we are receivers of mercy, we must be givers of thanks.

But yeah, I played bass guitar in high school and in college and then I actually fractured my thumb, so my bass career went bye-bye.

You are not a failure until you start blaming others for your mistakes

Before enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. After enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water.

Your eyes wider than distance, this life is sweeter than fiction.

I'm not all that well-educated or well-read, and I always feel a little intimidated about that. I perceive things on a much more instinctive level instead of intellectualizing things.