Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real.

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.

Every creation is, at its root, the struggle between potential form and imitated form.

One can fool life for a long time, but in the end it always makes us what we were intended to be.

Even the West has known the architecture of empty space, whose object, for thousands of years, has been less to construct divine houses, than to create sacred places, to seize upon mystery and to immerse man in it-whether by raising the cyclopean pedestal that surrounds him with stars, or by hollowing out the sanctuary that wraps him in haunted night.

Every great masterpiece is a purification of the world.