The consummate leader cultivates the moral law, and strictly adheres to method and discipline; thus it is in his power to control success.

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.

There's a lot of pride involved in my refusal to believe in god.

We keep asking where they have gonethose years we remember and wereach for them like hands in the night

Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.

Dyson and Tolkien were the immediate human causes of my conversion. Is any pleasure on earth as great as a circle of Christian friends by a good fire?

Im a shy person. I contradict my own profession, because Im an introvert in a very glamorous world.

I grew up in Chicago on the South Side, and had a ton of freedom, just did whatever I wanted, whenever I wanted. At the risk of sounding dopey, I would say it was blissful.

Living in a chronic state of unawareness can cause us to miss much of what is most beautiful and meaningful in our lives.

Maybe the point is that any marriage is work, but you may as well pick work that you like.

Paradoxically, no such embargo exists for the drugs and therapies that have revolutionized the treatment of serious diseases although many of them were created with the same technologies.

I call all chefs cooks. They're all cooks. That's what we do, we cook. You're a chef when you're running a kitchen.