إنّني أعتقد - ليسامحني الله - أنّني سعيد. - Nikos Kazantzakis

"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."

إن في النساء جرحا لا يلتئم بالمرة.

يقول كونفوشيوس: كثيرون يبحثون عن السعادة فيما هو أعلى من الإنسان، وآخرون فيما هو أوطى منه. لكن السعادة بطول قامة الإنسان