Lead the ideas of your time and they will accompany and support you; fall behind them and they drag you along with them; oppose them and they will overwhelm you.

It's the people who are in the wrong who get angry.

Do you know what astonished me the most in this world? The inability of force to create anything.

Those who failed to oppose me, who readily agreed with me and accepted all my views, were those who did me the most injury.

The affairs of war, like the destiny of battles, as well as empires, hang upon a spiders thread.

Ability is nothing without opportunity.

In war one must lean on an obstacle in order to overcome it.