“Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.”

“Art is a revolt against fate. All art is a revolt against man's fate.”

“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.”

“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.”

“To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.”

“If man is not ready to risk his life where is his dignity?”

“The mind supplies the idea of a nation but what gives this idea its sentimental force is a community of dreams.”

“Man is a dog's ideal of what God should be.”

“All art is a revolt against man's fate.”

“There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman.”

“Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.”