All very successful commanders are prima donnas and must be so treated.

The more I see of Arabs the less I think of them. By having studied them a good deal I have found out the trouble. They are the mixture of all the bad races on earth, and they get worse from west to east, because the eastern ones have had more crosses.

The god of war hates those who hesitate.

Make the mind run the body. Never let the body tell the mind what to do. The body will always give up.

To me it seems certain that the fatalistic teachings of Muhammad and the utter degradation of women is the outstanding cause for the arrested development of the Arab. He is exactly as he was around the year 700, while we have kept on developing.

You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.

A good battle plan that you act on today can be better than a perfect one tomorrow.