Nikos Kazantzakis

"All my life, I struggled to stretch my mind to the breaking point, until it began to creak, in order to create a great thought which might be able to give a new meaning to life, a new meaning to death, and to console mankind."

"I knew that no matter what door you knock on in a Cretan village, it will be opened for you. A meal will be served in your honor, and you will sleep between the best sheets in the house. In Crete, the stranger is still the unknown god. Before him, all doors and all hearts are opened."

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

"Life is trouble. Only death is not. To be alive is to unfasten your belt and look for a fight."

"One of man's greatest obligations is anger."

"Throughout my life my greatest benefactors have been my dreams and my travels; very few men, living or dead, have helped me in my struggle."

"When everything goes wrong, what a joy to test your soul and see if it has endurance and courage. An invisible and all-powerful enemy - some call him God, others the Devil, seem to rush upon us to destroy us; but we are not destroyed."