إِنَّ الإِنسانَ يَستَطيعُ أَنْ يُعبِّرَ عَن نصف أَفكاره فقط ، لأنه لا يعمل إلا نصف عمله فقط . إن العالم موجود في هذه الحالة اليائسة ، لأن الإنسان نصف فاضل ، نصف شرير… - Nikos Kazantzakis

You are not free. Myriad invisible hands hold your hands and direct them. When you rise in anger, a great-grandfather froths at your mouth; when you make love, an ancestral caveman growls with lust; when you sleep, tombs open in your memory till your skull brims with ghosts.

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.

The longer I live, the more I rebel. I'm not going to give in; I want to conquer the world!