Write words you’re willing to burn at the stake for. Write words you’d believe in even if the rest of the world didn’t.
Sincerity, even if it speaks with a stutter, will sound eloquent when inspired.
Fighting isn't all there is to the Art of War. The men who think that way, and are satisfied to have food to eat and a place to sleep, are mere vagabonds. A serious student is much more concerned with training his mind and disciplining his spirit than with developing martial skills.
It's no good to want to win still more when you have already won.
The greatest happiness of life was to stand at the difficult border between success and failure.
When a woman dislikes the man who is courting her, she parries him cleverly, like a willow in the wind.
Enemies were teachers in disguise.
From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured.
I love being able to be political without any political affiliation.
Peace, which costs nothing, is attended with infinitely more advantage than any victory with all its expence.
Have you not sometimes seen happiness? Yes, the happiness of others.