It's nonsense that people join the army to serve the country, like the politicians do it only for the sake of the country.

After India's victory in the war he was asked what would have happened if he had opted to be with the Pakistan Army at the time of partition in 1947, he quipped, then I guess Pakistan would have won.

Don't you think I would be a worthy replacement for you, Madam Prime Minister? You have a long nose. So have I. But I don't poke my nose into other people's affairs.

He who neither drinks, nor smokes, nor dances, he who preaches & even occasionally practice piety, temperance and celibacy, is generally a saint, or a mahatma or more likely a humbug but he certainly won't make a leader or for that matter a good soldier

If anyone tells you he is never afraid, he is a liar or he is a Gurkha.

If a man says he is not afraid of dying, he is either lying or is a Gurkha.

What is the next thing you need for leadership? It is the ability to make up your mind to make a decision and accept full responsibility for that decision.