Short cuts make delays, but inns make longer ones The Fellowship of the Ring

"He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it." The Analects of Confucius

Suppose that there are two sorts of existences, one seen, and the other unseen. ...The seen is the changing, and the unseen is the unchanging. ...And further, is not one part of us body, and the rest of us soul? ...Then the soul is more like to the unseen, and the body to the seen? ...the soul is then dragged by the body into the region of the changeable, and wanders and is confused; the world spins round her, and she is like a drunkard when under their influence? The Trials Of Socrates

Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt. The Art Of War