For the future, the motto is, "No days unalert."

Never take your position for granted and never let any favors you receive go to your head.

Grand strategy is the art of looking beyond the present battle and calculating ahead. Focus on your ultimate goal and plot to reach it.

Be brutal with the past, especially your own, and have no respect for the philosophies that are foisted on you from outside.

Boldness makes even the smallest animal dangerous

Your work is the single greatest means at your disposal for expressing your social intelligence.

Our times might emphasize equality, which we then mistake for the need for everyone to be the same, but what we really mean by this is the equal chance for people to express their differences, to let a thousand flowers bloom.