If the rules make such a difference, then it becomes very important who gets to make them.

When the officers are too strong and the common soldiers too weak, the result is COLLAPSE.

Adaptability is about the powerful difference between adapting to cope and adapting to win.

Great Leadership sometimes requires taking a step backward in order to take a leap forward.

So long as victory can be attained,  stupid haste is preferable to clever dilatoriness.

You can be sure of succeeding in your attacks if you only attack places which are undefended.

You can ensure the safety of your defense if you only hold positions that cannot be attacked.

Religion, too, is a weapon. What manner of weapon is religion when it becomes the government?

The definition of a professional is one who does a job well even when they don't like it.

Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.

Success in warfare is gained by carefully accommodating ourselves to the enemy's purpose.

Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.

When you are dealing with an invisible enemy,use most resources as shield, and a bit as a bait.

Do not swallow bait offered by the enemy. Do not interfere with an army that is returning home.

You don't know what you have until you use it. You don't have to wait until you lose it