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 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.

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

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.

Genius is not perfected, it is deepened. It does not so much interpret the world as fertilize itself with it.

Man knows that the world is not made on a human scale; and he wishes that it were.

Always, however brutal an age may actually have been, its style transmits its music only.

Art is a revolt against fate.

War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.

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.

All art is a revolt against man's fate.

Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real.

And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own.

An art book is a museum without walls.

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

Communism destroys democracy. Democracy can also destroy Communism.

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

Then I despair... I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been murderers and tyrants, and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it always.

The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell.

The crucial discovery was made that, in order to become painting, the universe seen by the artist had to become a private one created by himself.

To the humblest among them, who may be listening to me now, I want to say that the masterpiece to which you are paying historic homage this evening is a painting which he has saved.

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 is only one to be the conqueror.

Every great masterpiece is a purification of the world.

The world of art is not a world of immortality but of metamorphosis.

In the realm of human destiny, the depth of man's questionings is more important than his answers.

The terrible thing about death is that it transforms life into destiny.

If we cannot shape our destiny there is no such thing as witchcraft.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.

Last year, the Assembly of the League, as a result of the initiative taken by the Scandinavian nations, further limited and clarified all the provisions of the clause prescribing the duty of states to participate in sanctions.

Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.

Let everyone regulate his conduct... by the golden rule of doing to others as in similar circumstances we would have them do to us, and the path of duty will be clear before him.

Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.

Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.

To vote is like the payment of a debt, a duty never to be neglected, if its performance is possible.

Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation.

My first duty to write a gripping yarn. Second is to convey credible characters who make you feel what they feel. Only third comes the idea.

Every Christian will allow that sin is an evil, and that it is our duty not to commit sin.

Poland is an ally of the United States of America. It was our duty to show that we are a reliable, loyal, and predictable ally. America needed our help, and we had to give it.

Whenever I found out anything remarkable, I have thought it my duty to put down my discovery on paper, so that all ingenious people might be informed thereof.

The writer's duty is to keep on writing.

I love the line of Flaubert about observing things very intensely. I think our duty as writers begins not with our own feelings, but with the powers of observing.

Churchill knew the importance of peace, and he also knew the price of it. Churchill finally got his voice, of course. He stressed strategy, but it was his voice that armed England at last with the old-fashioned moral concepts of honor and duty, justice and mercy.

As a medical doctor, it is my duty to evaluate the situation with as much data as I can gather and as much expertise as I have and as much experience as I have to determine whether or not the wish of the patient is medically justified.

Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.

Man is a living duty, a depository of powers that he must not leave in a brute state. Man is a wing.

Never had there been such an attempt to make conquest the servant of civilization. About keeping India there is no question. England has a real duty there.