“There are no ideas, only people who…”

“We come from a dark abyss; we end in a dark abyss; we call the luminous interval…”

“You have the brushes, you have the colours, paint…”

“I said to the almond tree: ‘Sister, speak to me of God.’ …”

“I do not hope for anything. I do not fear anything, I have freed myself from both the mind and the heart, I have mounted much higher, …”

“Throughout my life my greatest benefactors have been…”

“Why don’t you ever laugh, Captain Michalis?”, they kept asking him. And Captain Michalis would answer:

“Our life is just a flash…”

“The four cornerstones of this world: …”

“The human heart is a tangle of caterpillars. Breathe upon them, O Christ, and turn them into…”

“What is happiness?…”

“What is light? Staring with a fearless eye…”

“Do not stoop down to ask, ‘Will we win? Will we lose?’ Just…”

“We live alone, we die alone, the intermediate bright spot we call…”

“The soul is stronger than need, and it… ”

“The highest virtue is not to be free…”

“You must love responsibility. You must say: “I, I alone, have a duty to save the earth…”

“I am a son of Crete, but Crete is…”

“Freedom means… ”

“Who is free?”

“Justice is good, but it’s for the angels; poor man cannot endure, he…”

“Stone, iron, steel will not endure.”

“Love man, because…”

“I do not fear God, he understands and forgives. I fear people.”

“If God doesn’t see a man lending a hand…”

“Man hurries… ”

“Never acknowledge the borders of man!”

“You don’t choose what you believe.”

“Man is a pyramid. At the base is a brute, at the top is God.”

“You must die every day. You must be born every day.”