With growing experience, all skillful commanders sought to profit by the power of the defensive, even when on the offensive.

I want people to laugh and cry, not just sit and stare at the TV.

Sometimes I wonder if we live life by reliving life, rather than by living life.

I believe in God, family, truth between people, the power of love.

The tougher the fight, the more important the mental attitude.

Whatever you want to do, do it now. There are only so many tomorrows.

To foster the people's willing spirit is often as important as to possess the more concrete forms of power.

While hitting one must guard... In order to hit with effect, the enemy must be taken off his guard.

The implied threat of using nuclear weapons to curb guerrillas was as absurd as to talk of using a sledge hammer to ward off a swarm of mosquitoes.

Inflict the least possible permanent injury, for the enemy of to-day is the customer of the morrow and the ally of the future

No man can exactly calculate the capacity of human genius and stupidity, nor the incapacity of will.

Guerrilla war is a kind of war waged by the few but dependent on the support of many.

Every action is seen to fall into one of three main categories, guarding, hitting, or moving. Here, then, are the elements of combat, whether in war or pugilism.

The higher level of grand strategy [is] that of conducting war with a far-sighted regard to the state of the peace that will follow.

For the spread and endurance of an idea the originator is dependent on the self-development of the receivers and transmitters.

In the case of a state that is seeking not conquest but the maintenance of its security, the aim is fulfilled if the threat is removed - if the enemy is led to abandon his purpose.

The search for the truth for truth's sake is the mark of the historian.

The most effective indirect approach is one that lures or startles the opponent into a false move - so that, as in ju-jitsu, his own effort is turned into the lever of his overthrow.

The military weapon is but one of the means that serve the purposes of war: one out of the assortment which grand strategy can employ.