If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles.

Never forget that no military leader has ever become great without audacity.

The more a general is accustomed to place heavy demands on his soldiers, the more he can depend on their response.

War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.

A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.

If the mind is to emerge unscathed from this relentless struggle with the unforeseen, two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead.