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

You must be single minded. Drive for the one thing on which you have decided.

To be a successful soldier you must know history. . . . What you must know is how man reacts. Weapons change but man who uses them changes not at all. To win battles you do not beat weapons - you beat the soul of man of the enemy man.

Remember that the enemy is just as frightened as you are and probably more so. They are not supermen

A civil servant is sometimes like a broken cannon - it won't work and you can't fire it.

My men don't dig foxholes. I don't want them to. Foxholes only slow up an offensive. Keep moving. And don't give the enemy time to dig one either.

You cannot be disciplined in great things and undisciplined in small things.