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.

Seldom is a Gothic head more beautiful than when broken.

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 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.

And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own.

One cannot create an art that speaks to men when one has nothing to say.

Christ...an anarchist who succeeded. That's all.