Death is a woman, and for that reason she's courageous and just, and never makes distinctions between mortals; she'll crush the ignorant, the arrogant, and the wise alike under her icy foot.

Every country that aspires to become a nation needs its heroes, its eminent civic and moral leaders, and if it doesn't have them, it's our duty to invent them.

A story is like building a chapel; a novel is a cathedral.

Sometimes it's necessary to believe in love, even if it doesn't exist.

our love for the dead, like a floating iceberg, can only be measured by the depths of our resentments.

Our needs cancel each other out, and that's as solid a base for love as any.

Misery loves good company, so if you are surrounded with drama, gossip and fools you may want to consider that you are presently at risk of becoming one of them.

Commitment is a thing of choice

If deeds are wanting all words appear mere vanity and emptiness.

Once you start recognizing your own obsessions, you know you’re getting old.

I can not forget Melina Mercouri in black dress at 'Never on Sunday'.

Someone once asked me what I want on my epitaph when I pass away. Just the words 'I tried.' That's what this game of life is all about. Trying. There's the tryers, the criers, and the liars.

Women are fully capable of doing everything.

I took thought, and invented what I conceived to be the appropriate title of 'agnostic'.

There is a day of sunny rest For every dark and troubled night; And grief may hide an evening guest, But joy shall come with early light.