Only the person who does not evade conflict and directs his efforts in keeping with the course of society's development can be an effective leader.

Politics needs a flexible mind, for it has no immutable or eternal rules. In politics immutable or eternal rules lead to inevitable and swift defeat.

We do not imitate but are a model to others.

I just wanted to get back to playing attacking football after my time in Italy. It was a little difficult at first but the atmosphere and the fans were just fantastic.

None but God is loved in the exist- ent things. It is He who is manifest within every beloved to the eye of every lover – and there is nothing in the existent realm that is not a lover

Living so fully, I can't imagine what any drug could do for me.

The story of your life is not your life; it's your story.

I shall state my thesis plain. The first poets were gods. Poetry began with the bicameral mind.

A lot of what's been written about me is not true: of my family history or my choices or my interests. Actually, I've never read anything written about me that was true. It's been completely crazy.

Tell me everything, I would say. All about the blues, and the time your heart was broken, and what scares you the most, and the thing you've always wanted to do but haven 't yet.

I want to work hard, and when good roles come along I don't want to pass them up.

A lot of people expect to see the same type of character that they see on the field off the field, and that throws them for a loop.