I wrote my will across the sky, in stars

Nine-tenths of tactics are certain, and taught in books: but the irrational tenth is like the kingfisher flashing across the pool, and that is the test of generals.

If I could talk it like Dahoum, you would never be tired of listening to me.

The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armoury of the modern commander.

It is difficult to keep quiet when everything is being done wrong, but the less you lose your temper the greater your advantage. Also then you will not go mad yourself.

It seems to me that the conquest of the air is the only major task for our generation.

The desert was held in a crazed communism by which Nature and the elements were for the free use of every known friendly person for his own purposes and no more.