This beginning with Audacity, or being thrown into the middle of it, is already a very great part of the art of painting.

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.

You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home -- all the more powerful because forbidden -- terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.

Good and great are seldom in the same man.

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.

I do not agree that the dog in a manger has the final right to the manger even though he may have lain there for a very long time. I do not admit that right. I do not admit for instance, that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America or the black people of Australia. I do not admit that a wrong has been done to these people by the fact that a stronger race, a higher-grade race, a more worldly wise race to put it that way, has come in and taken their place.