If you can put the question, 'Am I or am I not responsible for my acts?' then you are responsible.

As for me, this is my story: I worked and was tortured. You know what it means to compose? No, thank God, you do not! I believe you have never written to order, by the yard, and have never experienced that hellish torture.

Pass us by, and forgive us our happiness

If you can put the question, 'Am I or am I not responsible for my acts?' then you are responsible.

Power is given only to him who dares to stoop and take it ... one must have the courage to dare.

Realists do not fear the results of their study.

I don't need money, or, better, it's not money that I need; it's not even power; I need only what is obtained by power and simply cannot be obtained without power: the solitary and calm awareness of strength! That is the fullest definition of freedom, which the world so struggles over!