Amid the turmoil and tumult of battle, there may be seeming disorder and yet no real disorder at all.

The Art of War is self-explanatory

The height of strategy, is to attack your opponent's strategy.

In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it is not so good.

All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved.

Spies are a most important element in water, because on them depends an army's ability to move.

Who does not know the evils of war cannot appreciate its benefits.