Good intelligence is nine-tenths of any battle.

I have noticed in every campaign that I have fought-that there is a key segment of time, somewhere between 13 and 15 minutes in which the battle is won or lost. I focus on that segment of time, and I win.

A woman laughing is a woman conquered.

It is often in the audacity, in the steadfastness, of the general that the safety and the conservation of his men is found.

Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.

France has more need of me than I have need of France.

I do not amuse myself by thinking of dead people.