Take not counsel of your fears

Do as I have taught you, and you will stay alive.

I don’t fear failure. I only fear the slowing up of the engine inside of me which is saying, ‘Keep going, someone must be on top, why not you?

No sane man is unafraid in battle, but discipline produces in him a form of vicarious courage.

Plans must be simple and flexible....They must be made by the people who execute them.

Many soldiers are led to faulty ideas of war by knowing too much about too little.

Successful generals make plans to fit circumstances, but do not try to create circumstances to fit plans.