There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman.
To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.
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.
War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.
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.