War makes extremely heavy demands on the soldier's strength and nerves. For this reason, make heavy demands on your men in peacetime exercises.

If I had to take hell, I would use the Australians to take it and the New Zealanders to hold it.

Sweat saves blood, blood saves lives, but brains saves both.

A risk is a chance you take; if it fails you can recover. A gamble is a chance taken; if it fails, recovery is impossible.

Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning.

The German soldier has impressed the world, however the Italian Bersagliere soldier has impressed the German soldier.

For me, soldiers are all equal. Those black people wore your same uniform, fought on your side, and so you will be in the same jail.

One of the most important factors, not only in military matters but in life as a whole, is ... the ability to direct one's whole energies towards the fulfillment of a particular task.

There is one unalterable difference between a soldier and a civilian: the civilian never does more than he is paid to do.

The battle is fought and decided by the quartermasters, long before the shooting begins.

Training errors are recorded on paper. Tactical errors are etched in stone.

The secret to gaining the whole world is to keep your soul.

You must never tell people their own stories. They have no interest in them, or they think they can tell them better themselves. Give them a stranger's life, and then they're content.

I think if I took therapy, the doctor would quit. He'd just pick up the couch and walk out of the room.

Most diseases are the result of medication which has been prescribed to relieve and take away a beneficent and warning symptom on the part of Nature.

Order, cleanliness, seemliness make a structure that is half support, half ritual, and - if it does not create it - maintains decency.

The funniest comedians are in touch with their emotional level.

If we had an audience to play to, the performance would have gotten too big. Sizing our performances to the camera was an important journey for me at least.

The pioneer scientist must have "a vivid intuitive imagination, for new ideas are not generated by deduction, but by artistically creative imagination."

If the price of everything is going down, that's going to include wages as well. People will have an incentive to sit on their cash and not spend it.

Even she agreed that a woman had a right to chocolate.