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.

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.

There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman.

An art book is a museum without walls.

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

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.

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