The expert in battle seeks his victory from strategic advantage and does not demand it from his men.

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.

It's not only the event itself, but the way we explain it to ourselves that causes depression.

One scientific epoch ended and another began with James Clerk Maxwell.

I'm quite a broad girl, not at all delicate. I watch what I eat to stay in shape, but I'm against diets. I eat when I'm hungry, three meals a day.

poverty denotes a lack of necessities and simplicity a lack of needs.

Reality shows always look for the worst people.

I think that it's really important to go away and come back.

One of the good things about the profession of being a professor, is that you also have time to do what interests you and what you care about or what you're good at.

As you do your work, you discover what you love to do.

Collision with the Infinite: A Life Beyond the Personal Self

I really lucked out in terms of how my parents encouraged me to develop my own personality so I didn't just feel incredibly insecure and like I didn't fit in.