One never lives so intensely as when one has been thinking hard.

The value of things is not the time they last, but the intensity with which they occur. That is why there are unforgettable moments and unique people!

Life is what we make of it. Travel is the traveler. What we see isn't what we see but what we are.

My soul is a hidden orchestra; I know not what instruments, what fiddlestrings and harps, drums and tamboura I sound and clash inside myself. All I hear is the symphony.

The slope takes you to the windmill, but effort takes you nowhere.

We never love anyone. What we love is the idea we have of someone. It's our own concept—our own selves—that we love.

There are no norms. All people are exceptions to a rule that doesn’t exist.

Everything interests me, but nothing holds me.

I am nothing. I'll never be anything. I couldn't want to be something. Apart from that, I have in me all the dreams in the world.

It's been a long time since I've been me.

I bear the wounds of all the battles I avoided.

And now submarines are armed with mass murder, our silly, only way of deterring mass murder.

You cannot give what you don't have

I am a citizen not of Athens or Greece but of the world.

I cry a lot. I'll cry because I see a person walking down the street looking lonely.

Most Americans would say that they disapproved of violence. But what they really mean is that they believe it should be the monopoly of the state.

The qualities that one needs to be a good goalkeeper are exactly the same as to be a good sculptor. In both professions one should have a good relationship with time and space.

Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.

I do believe that books can change lives and give people this kind of language they wouldn't have had otherwise.

There can be no progress, no achievement without sacrifice.

At the bottom there is no perfect history; there is none such conceivable. All past centuries have rotted down, and gone confusedly dumb and quiet.