Obstinacy is a fault of temperament. Stubbornness and intolerance of contradiction result from a special kind of egotism, which elevates above everything else the pleasure of its autonomous intellect, to which others must bow.

Whoever does great things with small means has successfully reached the goal.

...as man under pressure tends to give in to physical and intellectual weakness, only great strength of will can lead to the objective.

Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain.

Beauty cannot be defined by abscissas and ordinates; neither are circles and ellipses created by their geometrical formulas.

The only situation a commander can know fully is his own: his opponent's he can know only from unreliable intelligence.

Never forget that no military leader has ever become great without audacity.