‚Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.

Anybody can be specific and obvious. That’s always been the easy way. It’s not that it’s so difficult to be unspecific and less obvious; it’s just that there’s nothing, absolutely nothing, to be specific and obvious about.

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

People make jokes about my bosoms, why don’t they look underneath the breasts at the heart? It’s obvious I’ve got big ones and if people want to assume they’re not mine, then let them.

When I was 18, I thought that, to be a romantic, you couldn’t live past 30.

Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.

If you look at ‚Blade Runner,‘ it’s been cut sixteen ways from Sunday, and there are all kinds of different versions of it.

It is important to emphasize that guerrilla warfare is a war of the masses, a war of the people. The guerrilla band is an armed nucleus, the fighting vanguard of the people. It draws its great force from the mass of the people themselves.

Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.

Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve.

A man can’t be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.

Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.

You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.

People often speak of God being even-handed. God is not even-handed. God is biased, in favor of the weak, of the despised.

I think our democracy has it exactly right: two terms, eight years. It’s enough. Because it’s important to have one foot in reality when you have access to this kind of power.

We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.

For me, education was power.

Wherever the enemy wants to fight, we will follow him to the ends of the Earth. We’ll adapt, we’ll train, we’ll advise, we’ll mentor, and we’ll fight, and we’ll fight well.

A siege is an act of war.

Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.

I was terrible in English. I couldn’t stand the subject. It seemed to me ridiculous to worry about whether you spelled something wrong or not, because English spelling is just a human convention – it has nothing to do with anything real, anything from nature.

The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.

The image is one thing and the human being is another. It’s very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.

If you judge, investigate.

A good indignation brings out all one’s powers.

We should not look at terrorism from the nameplates – which group they belong to, what is their geographical location, who are the victims. These individual groups or names will keep changing. Today you are looking at the Taliban or ISIS; tomorrow you might be looking at another name.

Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

And when a woman’s will is as strong as the man’s who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.

Women may fall when there’s no strength in men.

I think that at the start of a game, you’re always playing to win, and then maybe if you’re ahead late in the game, you start playing not to lose. The true competitors, though, are the ones who always play to win.

I like criticism. It makes you strong.

These young guys are playing checkers. I’m out there playing chess.

A person hears only what they understand.

The female loves to play man against man. And if she is in a position to do it, there is not one who will resist.

The U.S. increasingly has taken on the characteristics of what we describe as ‚failed states.‘

We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.

Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.

Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.

The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.

It has not yet become obvious to me that there’s no real problem. I cannot define the real problem; therefore, I suspect there’s no real problem, but I’m not sure there’s no real problem.

What matters in the Sun-tzu universe are not positions of strength and power, but situations in which you have options, full of potential force.

What we achieved was a nuclear pause, not a nuclear halt.

Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.

Battle is an orgy of disorder.

I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.

The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody.

The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.

No other planet in the solar system is a suitable home for human beings; it’s this world or nothing. That’s a very powerful perception.

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

A cat is only itself, representative of the strong forces of life that won’t let go.

Considering their impact, you might expect mosquitoes to get more attention than they do. Sharks kill fewer than a dozen people every year, and in the U.S. they get a week dedicated to them on TV every year.

The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery.

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

War – An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.

Women must tell men always that they are the strong ones. They are the big, the strong, the wonderful. In truth, women are the strong ones. It is just my opinion, I am not a professor.

If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.

I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place.

Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

There’s a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.