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

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.

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

There's no such thing as a grown up person.

In the realm of human destiny, the depth of man's questionings is more important than his answers.

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.

All art is a revolt against man's fate.