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.
Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real.
There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman.
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.
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?
