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.

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

Speed is not part of the true Way of strategy. Speed implies that things seem fast or slow, according to whether or not they are in rhythm. Whatever the Way, the master of strategy does not appear fast.

The path that leads to truth is littered with the bodies of the ignorant.

No man is invincible, and therefore no man can fully understand that which would make him invincible. Even with complete and thorough study there is always the possibility of being defeated and although one may be expert in a particular form, mastery is something a man never stops seeking to attain.

When you have attained the way of strategy there will be nothing that you cannot understand. You will see the way in everything.

The important thing in strategy is to suppress the enemy's useful actions but allow his useless actions