You win battles by knowing the enemy's timing, and using a timing which the enemy does not expect.

When in a fight to the death, one wants to employ all one's weapons to the utmost. I must say that to die with one's sword still sheathed is most regrettable.

Strategy is the craft of the warrior.

Always return your weapon along the same path it traveled out on. In this way you can use it again without having to relocate and rethink our attitude.

Whatever the Way, the master of strategy does not appear fast….Of course, slowness is bad. Really skillful people never get out of time, and are always deliberate, and never appear busy.

A bullet from a gun does not make a distinction between practice and combat. You are training to be one and the same way in your life

If the enemy stays spirited it is difficult to crush him.