"Thus an army without flexibility never wins..." - Quote by Lao Tzu

“All things arise in unison. Thereby we see their return.”

“Can you gather your vital breath and yet be tender like a newborn baby?”

“From What-is all the world of things was born But What-is sprang in turn from What-is-not.”

“Despite my firm convictions, I have always been a man who tries to face facts, and to accept the reality of life as new experience and new knowledge unfolds. I have always kept an open mind, a flexibility that must go hand in hand with every form of the intelligent search for truth.”

“People are born soft and weak. They die hard and stiff.”

“Have no rigid system in you, and you'll be flexible to change with the ever changing.”

“Were it goodTo set the exact wealth of all our statesAll at one cast? to set so rich a mainOn the nice hazard of one doubtful hour?It were not good.”

“Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.”

“An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy.”