Beauty always had a purpose: to be of service to life.

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!

The doors of heaven and hell are adjacent and identical.

A prophet is the one who, when everyone else despairs, hopes. And when everyone else hopes, he despairs. You’ll ask me why. It’s because he has mastered the Great Secret: that the Wheel turns.

In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.

I an not tired, but the night is coming.

Love’s feet are always pleased to step on ashes.

Overdraw me Lord, and who cares if I break!

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.

Discipline is the highest of all virtues. Only so may strength and desire be counterbalanced and the endeavors of man bear fruit.

We have but a single moment at our disposal. Let us transform that moment into eternity. No other form of immortality exists

Who knows, perhaps God is simply the search for God.

Never in my life had I felt so tangibly and with such astonishment that hate, by passing successively through comprehension, mercy, and sympathy, can be transformed into love.

My son, I carry on as if I should never die.' I replied: 'And I carry on as if I was going to die any minute.

—I hope you don't mind my saying so, boss, but I don't think your brain is quite formed yet. How old are you? —Thirty-five. —Then it never will be.

What a miracle life is and how alike are all souls when they send their roots down deep and meet and are one!

The great difference between us is this: you believe you have found salvation, and believing this, you are saved; I believe that salvation doesn’t exist, and believing this, I am saved.

But then I was young, and to be young means to undertake to demolish the world and to have the gall to wish to erect a new and better one in its place.

God turned his face the other way, and the earth was in darkness. "An eclipse of God... an eclipse of God

Madness, Brother Masseo, is the salt which prevents good sense from rotting.

It is impossible for me to remember how many days or weeks went by in this way. Time is round, and it rolls quickly.

Confucius says: 'Many seek happiness higher than man; others beneath him. But happiness is the same height as man.' That is true. So there must be a happiness to suit every man's stature.

I'm fighting to save myself, and save myself, I will." Mary Magdalene in The Last Temptation of Christ