What is essential in war is victory, not prolonged operations.

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 greatest joy in life comes not from winning but from giving.

In every living thing there is the desire for love.

I have a theory and I really believe it. I think your worst weakness can become your greatest single strength.

Learning how to be agreeable is the key to learning self-control.

Parties and political systems used to be about excluding renegades who would never play well with others in government. Now it's actually systematically screening them in.

A little while, a moment of rest upon the wind, and another woman shall bear me.

One of my favorite things about hanging out with the monsters is the healing. Straight humans seemed to get killed on me a lot. Monsters survived. Let's hear it for the monsters.

People have the idea that an image must stand for something else, that the real meaning needs to be described with language. Instead it is the image itself that is the meaning.

Never knew before what eternity was made for. It is to give some of us a chance to learn German.

Bad art is maintained by the neurotic, who is deadly afraid of authentic art because it inspires him to go on living, and he is terrified of life.