Planning

"A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving."

"Once you let the words go, you have no control over how they're printed or what the media does with them. So there's no point in trying to make plans or to control it."

"Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt."

"Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe."

"When you're young and healthy you can plan on Monday to commit suicide, and by Wednesday you're laughing again."

"Plan for what it is difficult while it is easy, do what is great while it is small."

"Attack is the secret of defense; defense is the planning of an attack."

"Government “planning” is not an alternative to chaos. It is a pre-emption of other people’s plans."

"He is able who thinks he is able."

"The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom."

"By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities."

"It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan."