They [spies] cannot be properly managed without benevolence and straightforwardness.

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.

The forty days of the soul begin on the morning after death.

Whence? wither? why? how? - these questions cover all philosophy.

It's particularly hard to take being stabbed in the back close to home. There's always a feeling of betrayal when people of your own group oppose you.

Washington is a place where good ideas go to die.

That's where you have to look for your inspiration. Don't separate the rest of your life - who you are, what you love - from your work.

Every city and country just has a different reason for wanting to host the [Olympic] games.

I don't like sleeping in a bed.

The more unhappy you are, the more miserable you are, the more you're going to suffer.

I'm totally not kidding. Life is too short. This is all too hard to do to actually be kidding about the whole thing.

Deliver me, O Lord, from that evil man, myself.