One must not make oneself cheap here – that is a cardinal point – or else one is done. Whoever is most impertinent has the best chance. – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience, the poet, like an acrobat, climbs on rhyme to a high wire of his own making. – Lawrence Ferlinghetti
The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on. – Ulysses S. Grant