"Reach what you cannot"

-- Nikos Kazantzakis

“The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems - the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behavior and religion.”
“I am interested in making up a good case for distortion, as I am coming to believe it is the only way to make people see.”
“I assumed the amount wouldn't be detectable. I also didn't feel that I had done anything wrong.”
“If you're going to steal a car, don't steal a mail vehicle. They don't mess around. I mean, have fun, steal all the cars you want, but don't steal a U.S. Mail vehicle.”
“So if big enough droplets fell far enough fast enough, someone floating right near the metallic hydrogen layer inside Jupiter maybe, just maybe, could have looked up into its cream and orange sky and seen the most spectacular show ever--fireworks lighting up the Jovian night with a trillion streaks of brilliant crimson, what scientists call neon rain.”
“My parents always told me that you always want to be the worst of the best. If you are the best, you never learn.”
“It is impossible for a man to be freed from the habit of sin before he hates it, just as it is impossible to receive forgiveness before confessing his trespasses...”
“There's a thrill when you have a hard set, a rugged workout, and you feel it, and you take it, and you go beyond it.”

You may also like:

Anthony Quinn
Actor
C.P. Cavafy
Poet
El Greco
Painter
Friedrich Nietzsche
Philologist
Giannis Ritsos
Poet
Giorgos Seferis
Poet
Homer
Author
Irene Papas
Film actress
Odysseas Elytis