Since 1789 history has had a new perspective, revolution being a successful revolt, and revolt a revolution that has failed.

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.

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

An art book is a museum without walls.

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.

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.

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