Each man must have his own special route to lead him to God.

Freedom was my first great desire. The second, which remains hidden within me to this day, tormenting me, was the desire for sanctity. Hero together with saint: such is mankind's supreme model.

As you walk, you cut open and create that river bed into which the stream of your descendants shall enter and flow.

We come from a dark abyss, we end in a dark abyss, and we call the luminous interval life.

I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free. inscription on Kazantakis's tomb in Heraklion, Greece

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.

There is no harsher means of punishment, than to answer malice with kindness.