There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman.
Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real.
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.
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.
If man is not ready to risk his life, where is his dignity?
