Extract Month from date IE 3/10/2010 = 3

I need a formula that will tell me the month and only the month in the smallest amount of numbers as possible. Meaning if the date is 3/10/2010 the formula should display 3 and if the date is 10/10/2010 the value would be 10. Also I need to be able to extract the day and year. So in total there should be three formulas:

1 to tell me the month
1 to tell me the day of the month
and 1 to tell me to year

If anyone knows how to do this I'd be very grateful. I thought of using Left(A1,1) or something to that affect but since not all months are the same length and not all days are the same length that would not work.