One cannot govern with 'buts'.
You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.
A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends.
Victory often goes to the army that makes the least mistakes, not the most brilliant plans.
China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese.
In the tumult of great events, solitude was what I hoped for. Now it is what I love. How is it possible to be contented with anything else when one has come face to face with history?