The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.

Art is a revolt against fate. All art is a revolt against man's fate.

Genius is not perfected, it is deepened. It does not so much interpret the world as fertilize itself with it.

And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own.

Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.

Man knows that the world is not made on a human scale; and he wishes that it were.

Always, however brutal an age may actually have been, its style transmits its music only.

The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell.

To the humblest among them, who may be listening to me now, I want to say that the masterpiece to which you are paying historic homage this evening is a painting which he has saved.

There are not fifty ways of fighting, there's only one, and that's to win. Neither revolution nor war consists in doing what one pleases.