There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.
I base my calculations on the expectation that luck will be against me.
Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it.
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.
From the sublime to the ridiculous is but a step.
A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets.
Impossible is a word found only in the dictionary of fools.
From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.
