"Strategy is different from other things in that if your mistake the Way (of strategy), even a little, you will become bewildered and fall into bad ways."

"Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we're here we should dance."

"God be between you and harm in all the empty places where you must walk."

"In order to hold your faith intact Be sure it's kept unsullied by fact"

"A society deadened by a smothering network of laws while finding release in moral chaos is not likely to be either happy or stable."

"Heaven endures and the earth last a long time because they do not live for themselves."

"Live dangerously and you live right."

"That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment."

"If a pessimist is always right, is he a realist?"

"When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along."

"It is never too late to give up your prejudices."

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