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

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.

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.

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

—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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Overdraw me Lord, and who cares if I break!

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

I an not tired, but the night is coming.

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

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.

The doors of heaven and hell are adjacent and identical.

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!

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

Happy the youth who believes that his duty is to remake the world and bring it more in accord with virtue and justice, more in accord with his own heart. Woe to whoever commences his life without lunacy.

If the soul within us does not change, Judas, the world outside us will never change. The enemy is within, the Romans are within, salvation starts from within!

While experiencing happiness, we have difficulty in being conscious of it. Only when the happiness is past and we look back on it do we suddenly realize - sometimes with astonishment - how happy we had been.

I knew that over and above the truth, there exists another duty which is much more important and much more human.

Never in my life have I feared death as much as I feared that resurrection.