“China is a sleeping giant; let him sleep, for if he wakes, he will shake the World.”

“I make my battle plans from the spirit of my sleeping soldiers”

“the world has the habit of making room for the man whose words and actions show that he knows where he is going.”

“There are in the world, two powers. The sword and the spirit. The spirit has always vanquished the sword.”

“The world suffers a lot. Not because the violence of bad people. But because of the silence of the good people.”

“A commander in chief ought to say to himself several times a day: If the enemy should appear on my front, on my right, on my left, what would I do? And if the question finds him uncertain, he is not well placed, he is not as he should be, and he should remedy it.”

“To understand the man you have to know what was happening in the world when he was twenty.”