Leave nothing for death but a burned-out castle

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.

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!

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.

Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.

Time is the Mind of Space.

To learn is a natural pleasure, not confined to philosophers, but common to all men.

I think four Olympics is probably enough. Five Olympics is a long time, but there's nothing wrong with that if I'm into it and I'm healthy and my priorities can fit around that.

Good design, like good painting, cooking, architecture or whatever you like, is a manifestation of the capacity of the human spirit to transcend its limitations.

My boyfriend is not a swimmer!

If you cut me in half, I'm a footballer.

Americans have a healthy stupidity. That lack of sophistication is a secret superpower.

It's almost as if we're put here on earth to show how silly they aren't.

I wish that all Americans would realize that American politics is world politics.