Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.
What is Man? A miserable little pile of secrets.
In literature, as in Life, one is often astonished by what is chosen by others.
To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.
Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one’s ideas, to take a calculated risk – and to act.
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.
There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman.
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.
The most important thing in life is to see to it that you are never beaten.
Culture is the sum of all the forms of art, of love, and of thought, which, in the coarse or centuries, have enabled man to be less enslaved.
The terrible thing about death is that it transforms life into destiny.
Surely that little pseudo-gothic church on Broadway, hidden amongst the skyscrapers, is symbolic of the age! On the whole face of the globe the civilization that has conquered it has failed to build a temple or a tomb.