The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell.
~ André Malraux
Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.
There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman.
The mind supplies the idea of a nation but what gives this idea its sentimental force is a community of dreams.
To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.
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.
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.
Art is a revolt against fate. All art is a revolt against man's fate.
