How simple and frugal a thing is happiness.

We're going to start with small, easy things; then, little by little we shall try our hand at the big things. And after that, after we finish the big things, we shall undertake the impossible.

It was certainly not this mummified and outrageously painted old woman he was seeing before him, but the entire "female species," as it was his custom to call women. The individual disappeared, the features were obliterated, whether young or senile, beautiful or ugly - those were mere unimportant variations. Behind each woman rises the austere, sacred and mysterious face of Aphrodite.

The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darkness.

My entire soul is a cry, and all my work is a commentary on that cry.

My principle anguish and the source of all my joys and sorrows from my youth onward has been the incessant, merciless battle between the spirit and the flesh.

There is only one sin god will not forgive Boss, and that is to deny a woman who is in wanting ~ Zorba