The next century's task will be to rediscover its gods.

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.

Be careful -- with quotations, you can damn anything.

The thrill of creation which we experience which we experience when we see a masterpiece is not unlike the feeling of the artist who created it; such a work is a fragment of the world which he has annexed and which belongs to him alone.

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.

Genius is not perfected, it is deepened. It does not so much interpret the world as fertilize itself with it.

To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.