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.

Communism destroys democracy. Democracy can also destroy Communism.

In art, we are the first heirs of all the earth. . . . Accidents impair and Time transforms, but it is we who choose.

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

Man knows that the world is not made on a human scale; and he wishes that it were.

The twenty-first century will be spiritual or it will not be.

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.