War is nothing but a duel on a larger scale.

The enemy of a good plan is the dream of a perfect plan.

War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.

No one starts a war--or rather, no one in his sense ought to do so--without first being clear in his mind what he intends to achieve by the war and how he intends to conduct it.

To secure peace is to prepare for war.

Tactics is the art of using troops in battle; strategy is the art of using battles to win the war

Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.

To achieve victory we must mass our forces at the hub of all power & movement. The enemy's 'Center of Gravity'

It is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past.

Be audacious and cunning in your plans, firm and persevering in their execution, determined to find a glorious end.

Criticism exists only to recognize the truth, not to act as judge.

Poverty was nature surviving in society

Every faculty and virtue I possess can be used as an instrument with which to worry myself.

Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

There's an impression that actors make a lot of choices. I just take what's there.

Bourgeois morality is largely a system of making cheap virtues a cloak for expensive vices.

If you think you can fall, you're more likely to.

Every civilization sees itself as the center of the world and writes its history as the central drama of human history.

Honor all living things, for we are of the stag, and the salmon, and the bee; so destroy not life, save it be to preserve your own.

I never want someone to come out of one of my films and say, "Damn. I wasted an hour and a half of my life." I'm trying to avoid that.

Let's face it, writing is hell.