"All men can see these tactics whereby i conquer,
but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved."

“Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt”

"Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory.
Tactics without Strategy is the noise before defeat."

"The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's... not attacking,
but rather on the fact that we have made our position unassailable."

"if you know yourself and the enemy you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. if you know yourself but not the enemy for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. if you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle."

“But a Kingdom that has once been destroyed can never again come into being; nor can the dead ever be brought back to life.”

“Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look upon them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death. If, however, you are indulgent, but unable to make your authority felt; kind-hearted, but unable to enforce your commands; and incapable, moreover, of quelling disorder: then your soldiers must be likened to spoilt children; they are useless for any practical purpose.”

"To fight and conquer in all our battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting"

Sun Tzu (c.544 - 496 BC.)