Andre Malraux

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.

Communism destroys democracy. Democracy can also destroy Communism.

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 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.

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.

War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.

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

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.