You win battles by knowing the enemy's timing, and using a timing which the enemy does not expect.

Study strategy over the years and achieve the spirit of the warrior. Today is victory over yourself of yesterday; tomorrow is your victory over lesser men.

All things entail rising and falling timing. You must be able to discern this.

You win battles by knowing the enemy's timing, and using a timing which the enemy does not expect.

Perceive that which cannot be seen with the eye.

Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is resolute acceptance of death.

Do nothing which is of no use.

Think lightly of yourself and deeply of the world.

There is nothing outside of yourself that can ever enable you to get better, stronger, richer, quicker, or smarter. Everything is within. Everything exists. Seek nothing outside of yourself.

You may abandon your own body but you must preserve your honour.

This is truth: When you sacrifice your life, you must make fullest use of your weaponry. It is false not to do so, and to die with a weapon as yet undrawn.

You can abandon your own body but never let go of your honor.

No man is invincible, and therefore no man can fully understand that which would make him invincible.

Truth is not what you want it to be; it is what it is, and you must bend to its power or live a lie.

You win battles by knowing the enemy's timing, and using a timing that the enemy does not expect.

Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things.

The sword has to be more than a simple weapon; it has to be an answer to life's questions.

Our military commanders have said over and over again that a timetable for withdrawal sends the wrong message to our troops, but more importantly to our enemy.

Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law.

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

There are a lot of people out there who think that I am their worst enemy, and I don't even care if these people exist.

By this time it was past six, and the enemy's van and ours were at too great a distance to engage, I perceived some of their ships stretching to the northward; and I imagined they were going to form a new line.

To me our bombing policy appears to be suicidal. Not because it does not do vast damage to our enemy, it does; but because, simultaneously, it does vast damage to our peace aim, unless that aim is mutual economic and social annihilation.

Especially today as we fight the war on terror - against an enemy that represents hatred, extremism and stands behind no flag - we need to remember the sacrifices that have gone into protecting our flag.

No enemy is worse than bad advice.

The soldier's main enemy is not the opposing soldier, but his own commander.

This bored fantastic woman, with her animal nature, giving herself the pleasure of seeing her enemy struck down, not a particularly keen one for her because she is so weary of having all her desires satisfied.

Reason is the enemy of faith.

Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

If I liken the Pacific War to a football match, I can say to you that the first half is over, we have kicked off after the interval, and we are going to carry the ball into enemy territory for a smashing victory.

Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.

I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.

Hatred is not contained in political thinking. Any hatred worked up against the public enemy is non-political, and always shows some weakness in the internal political situation.

No battle plan survives contact with the enemy.

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

I really didn't have any plans to record prior to doing My Own Best Enemy.

Whatever the number of a man's friends, there will be times in his life when he has one too few; but if he has only one enemy, he is lucky indeed if he has not one too many.

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.

I have never made a friend from whom I could not separate, and I have never made an enemy that I could not approach.

Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically.

Nothing is more fallacious than wealth. It is a hostile comrade, a domestic enemy.

Terrorism is in good part an effective government propaganda; it serves to deflect attention from governmental abuse toward a mostly imagined, highly dangerous outside enemy.

Anyone who is an enemy of mine, let him love women, but let he who is my friend rejoice in men.

That is the thankless position of the father in the family - the provider for all, and the enemy of all.

And my real enemy is not to hold the specimen sterile, but it's the lighting. The light is our real enemy. So we have to work with very very poor lighting. But we can increase the light with computers.

Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. I you look at it to admire it, you are lost.

And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

The enemy is not Islam, the great world faith, but a perversion of Islam.

Every man is his own chief enemy.