A great man's greatest good luck is to die at the right time.

There is perhaps no better way of measuring the natural endowment of a soul than by its ability to transmute dissatisfaction into a creative impulse.

When we lose our individual independence in the corporateness of a mass movement, we find a new freedom — freedom to hate, bully, lie, torture, murder and betray without shame and remorse.

They who clamor loudest for freedom are often the ones least likely to be happy in a free society.

Nothing comes easily. My work smells of sweat.

Those who see their lives as spoiled and wasted crave equality and fraternity more than they do freedom. If they clamor for freedom, it is but freedom to establish equality and uniformity.

It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny.