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.

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.

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.

Leave nothing for death but a burned-out castle

I don’t wish for more time. I wish for more courage to live freely right now.

This is what they mean by epiphanies. I am almost thinking in exclamation points.

The price of leadership is criticism.

Having a normal knee would make life a lot easier.

We don't laugh because we feel good; we feel good because we laugh.

The higher up I went, the less happy I was.

Meditation is the calm in the chaos, the fastest way to settle down and get in touch with the stillness within.

If people are driving you around to look at animals, that's wonderful. That's educational, but it's not necessarily enlightening and you're not finding out much about yourself.

Don't waste time on excuses. Just get it done.

If you are interested in what you do, that keeps you going!