Tofight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supremeexcellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

Ifyou are leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.

Hear me,my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun nowstands, I will fight no more forever.

Conduct is wise or foolish only in reference to its results.

Thedeeper the waters are, the more still they run.

Why don'tyou want to do what you know you should do? The reason you don't is thatyou're in conflict with yourself.

Nature's instructions are always slow, those of men are generally premature.

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

Genius is a long impatience.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

Itmatters not whether you win or lose; what matters is whether I win or lose.

The majority of mankind always has been and always will be composed of imbeciles.