Correct your mistake as soon as you have found it.

To plan secretly, to move surreptitiously, to foil the enemy's intentions and balk his schemes, so that at last the day may be won without shedding a drop of blood.

He who is prudent and lies in wait for an enemy who is not, will be victorious.

Those who are victorious plan effectively and change decisively. They are like a great river that maintains its course but adjusts its flow.

The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim.

There are five kinds of incendiary attack: The first is called setting fire to personnel; the second, to stores; the third, to transport vehicles and equipment; the fourth, to munitions; the fifth, to supply installations...In all cases an army must understand the changes induced by the five kinds of incendiary attack, and make use of logistical calculations to address them.

In all fighting, the direct method may be used for joining battle, but indirect methods will be needed in order to secure victory.