How could I, who loved life so intensely, have let myself be entangled for so long in that balderdash of books and paper blackened with ink!

I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else.

You can knock on a deaf man's door forever.

If a woman sleeps alone it puts a shame on all men. God has a very big heart, but there is one sin He will not forgive. If a woman calls a man to her bed and he will not go.

The human soul is heavy, clumsy, held in the mud of the flesh. Its perceptions are still coarse and brutish. It can divine nothing clearly, nothing with certainty.

Every man has his folly, but the greatest folly of all, in my view, is not to have one.

Tell me what you do with the food you eat, and I’ll tell you who you are. Some turn their food into fat and manure, some into work and good humor, and others, I’m told, into God.” - Zorba.

Luck is blind, they say. It can’t see where it’s going and keeps running into people…and the people it knocks into we call lucky! Well, to hell with luck if it's like that, I say!

When you've made up your mind, no use lagging behind, go ahead and no relenting, Let your youth have free reign, it won't come again, so be bold and no repenting.

You have everything but one thing: madness. A man needs a little madness or else - he never dares cut the rope and be free.

Leave nothing for death but a burned-out castle

I have learned silence from the talkative, tolerance from the intolerant and kindness from the unkind.I should not be ungrateful to those teachers. ~Kahlil Gibran~

When he touches me, the sky and the earth switch places.

Those were the words she wanted to hear and she finally surrendered to the temptation of believing them.

The engineering of consent is the very essence of the democratic process, the freedom to persuade and suggest.

It is a necessary precondition for the success of a referendum that there should be broad community consensus and bipartisan support for it.

I am high in the sky, and still I do not see the face of god.

Praxiteles borrowed the better elements of a hundred imperfect models in order to create a masterpiece.

That is how heavy a secret can become. It can make blood flow easier than ink.

I don't need to know how tough I am to know how tough I am.

People equated burning CDs with theft. That's not what burning CDs is. Theft is about acquiring the music from the Internet.