Discipline is the highest of all virtues. Only so may strength and desire be counterbalanced and the endeavors of man bear fruit. - Nikos Kazantzakis

Once more I realized to what an extent earthly happiness is made to the measure of man. It is not a rare bird which we must pursue at one moment in heaven, at the next in our minds. Happiness is a domestic bird found in our own courtyards.

— I hope you don't mind my saying so, boss, but I don't think your brain is quite formed yet. How old are you? — Thirty-five. — Then it never will be.

This is true happiness: to have no ambition and to work like a horse as if you had every ambition. To live far from men, not to need them and yet to love them. To have the stars above, the land to your left and the sea to your right and to realize of a sudden that in your heart, life has accomplished its final miracle: it has become a fairy tale.