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 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.

The terrible thing about death is that it transforms life into destiny.

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

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.