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

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.

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.

There's no such thing as a grown up person.

Every great masterpiece is a purification of the world.

As for the outside world, the artist is confronted by what he sees; but what he sees is primarily what he looks at.

I don't argue with my enemies; I explain to their children.