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

The only domain where the divine is visible is that of art, whatever name we choose to call it.

The most important thing in life is to see to it that you are never beaten.

Communism destroys democracy. Democracy can also destroy Communism.

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.

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

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.