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.

Communism destroys democracy. Democracy can also destroy Communism.

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.

Then I despair... I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been murderers and tyrants, and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it always.

Art is a revolt against fate.

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

An artist discovers his genius the day he dares not to please.