There's not much benefit in attacking an empty house.

People tend to be put off by the idea of selling sex, but if you spend a winter's night with one of them and talk with her about her family and so on, you're likely to find she's just like any other woman.

It's no good to want to win still more when you have already won.

Fighting isn't all there is to the Art of War. The men who think that way, and are satisfied to have food to eat and a place to sleep, are mere vagabonds. A serious student is much more concerned with training his mind and disciplining his spirit than with developing martial skills.

It's interesting, isn't it? Being in the world.

Danger was the grindstone on which the swordsman whetted his spirit. Enemies were teachers in disguise.

The bitter winds in February were sometimes called the First East Winds, but the longing for spring somehow made them seem more piercing.