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.

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!

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

Have peace in your heart to find peace in the outer world.

Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.

The poor will will provide you with what they don't have and what you need. The rich will give you what they have and what you want.

There is no need to lose weight for some one because only those ask you to lose some weight who can not afford your likeings

I lack self-confidence. I don't know whether I shall ever get it. Perhaps it is better to be unsure of your self, as I am. But it is very tiring.

You grow up a lot in terms of your understanding of the industry and how to deal with the corporate things.

Friend, there's no greater investment in life than in being a people builder. Relationships are more important than our accomplishments.

Balance is the key to a beautifully made-up face.

At the top of your lungs, shout and listen to the echoes. You must live life at the top of your voice!

I was in punk rock bands, heavy metal bands, world music bands, jazz groups, any type of music that would take me. I just love music.