If man is not ready to risk his life, where is his dignity?

Nothing is harder than to get people to think about what they are going to do.

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

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.

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 great mystery is not that we should have been thrown down here at random between the profusion of matter and that of the stars; it is that from our very prison we should draw, from our own selves, images powerful enough to deny our own nothingness.

He who has dreamed for long resembles his dream.