A break in the established order is never the work of chance. It is the outcome of a man's resolve to turn life to account.

In a world in which everything is subject to the passing of time, art alone is both subject to time and yet victorious over it.

Youth is a religion from which one always ends up being converted.

To understand what the outside of an aquarium looks like, it's better not to be a fish.

In the course of history, all empires have been created with premeditation, by an effort often sustained over several generations. Every power has been Roman to a degree. The United States is the first nation to become the most powerful in the world without having sought to be so. Its exceptional energy and organization have never been oriented toward conquest.

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.

The only domain where the divine is visible is that of art, whatever name we choose to call it.