Every young man's heart is a graveyard in which are inscribed the names of a thousand dead artists but whose only actual denizens are a few mighty, often antagonistic, ghosts.

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

There are not fifty ways of fighting, there is only one: to be the conqueror.

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.

What is Man? A miserable little pile of secrets.

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.

There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman.