Time's arrow, we are told, is a one-way thing. . . Memory's arrow, like the needle of a compass too close to a lodestone, spins in all directions.
Greater powers and resources do not guarantee tactical superiority.
For one who has really mastered the way of warfare, his enemy can do nothing to escape death.
Deliberate tactical errors and minor losses are the means by which to bait the enemy.
When conventional tactics are altered unexpectedly according to the situation, they take on the element of surprise and increase in strategic value.
On both difficult and easy terrain, you must know the 'tenable' and 'fatal' ground. Occupy tenable ground and attack on fatal ground.
Everyone is deceived in his hopes, cheated in his expectations.
I will just think, why am I singing? Then I will know everything I need to know about what I'm feeling.
Probably the deepest use of music and of art is to create conscience.
I wrote three books, I had three greenhouses. It seemed to me to be very satisfactory.