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

I an not tired, but the night is coming.

Love’s feet are always pleased to step on ashes.

Overdraw me Lord, and who cares if I break!

Tell me what you do with the food you eat, and I’ll tell you who you are. Some turn their food into fat and manure, some into work and good humor, and others, I’m told, into God.” - Zorba.

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

We have but a single moment at our disposal. Let us transform that moment into eternity. No other form of immortality exists

Who knows, perhaps God is simply the search for God.

Never in my life had I felt so tangibly and with such astonishment that hate, by passing successively through comprehension, mercy, and sympathy, can be transformed into love.

My son, I carry on as if I should never die.' I replied: 'And I carry on as if I was going to die any minute.

—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.

What a miracle life is and how alike are all souls when they send their roots down deep and meet and are one!

The great difference between us is this: you believe you have found salvation, and believing this, you are saved; I believe that salvation doesn’t exist, and believing this, I am saved.

But then I was young, and to be young means to undertake to demolish the world and to have the gall to wish to erect a new and better one in its place.

God turned his face the other way, and the earth was in darkness. "An eclipse of God... an eclipse of God

Madness, Brother Masseo, is the salt which prevents good sense from rotting.

It is impossible for me to remember how many days or weeks went by in this way. Time is round, and it rolls quickly.

Confucius says: 'Many seek happiness higher than man; others beneath him. But happiness is the same height as man.' That is true. So there must be a happiness to suit every man's stature.

I'm fighting to save myself, and save myself, I will." Mary Magdalene in The Last Temptation of Christ

Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.

What are you going to do? Everything, is my guess. It will be a little messy, but embrace the mess. It will be complicated, but rejoice in the complications.

Don't you love New York in the fall? It makes me want to buy school supplies. I would send you a bouquet of newly sharpened pencils if I knew your name and address.

When I buy a new book, I always read the last page first, that way in case I die before I finish, I know how it ends. That, my friend, is a dark side.

Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy.

The desire to get married is a basic and primal instinct in women. It's followed by another basic and primal instinct: the desire to be single again.

And then the dreams break into a million tiny pieces. The dream dies. Which leaves you with a choice: you can settle for reality, or you can go off, like a fool, and dream another dream.

I have made a lot of mistakes falling in love, and regretted most of them, but never the potatoes that went with them.

When your children are teenagers, it's important to have a dog so that someone in the house is happy to see you.

I don't think any day is worth living without thinking about what you're going to eat next at all times.

I look out the window and I see the lights and the skyline and the people on the street rushing around looking for action, love, and the world's greatest chocolate chip cookie, and my heart does a little dance.

So much of what I see reminds me of something I read in a book, when shouldn't it be the other way around?

Oh, how I regret not having worn a bikini for the entire year I was twenty-six. If anyone young is reading this, go, right this minute, put on a bikini, and don't take it off until you're thirty-four.

My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have to potential to be the comic stories the next.

[W]hen you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.

Summer bachelors like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be.

In my sex fantasy, nobody ever loves me for my mind.

Reading makes me feel I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. ... Reading is bliss.

I married him against all evidence. I married him believing that marriage doesn't work, that love dies, that passion fades, and in so doing I became the kind of romantic only a cynic is truly capable of being.

…the amount of maintenance involving hair is genuinely overwhelming. Sometimes I think that not having to worry about your hair anymore is the secret upside of death.

I have no desire to be dominated. Honestly I don't. And yet I find myself becoming angry when I'm not.

I always read the last page of a book first so that if I die before I finish I'll know how it turned out.

It's much easier to get over someone if you can delude yourself into thinking you never really cared that much.

You always think that a bolt of lightning is going to strike and your parents will magically change into the people you wish they were, or back into the people they used to be.

I look as young as a person can look given how old I am.

The hardest thing about writing is writing.

Above all, be the heroine of your own life, not the victim.

As Harry puts it, men and women can never be friends because 'the sex part always gets in the way.

If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters.

When you slip on a banana peel, people laugh at you. But when you tell people you slipped on a banana peel, it's your laugh.

Never marry a man you wouldn’t want to be divorced from.