I'm personally very grateful to my many friends in the Greek-American community, sons and daughters of Greece who have found success in every walk of American life.

You can’t let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

Keep exploring. Keep dreaming. Keep asking why. Don’t settle for what you already know. Never stop believing in the power of your ideas, your imagination, your hard work to change the world.

When ignorant folks want to advertise their ignorance, you don't really have to do anything, you just let them talk.

Just because we have the best hammer does not mean that every problem is a nail.

Change is never easy, but always possible.

Don’t ever let anybody tell you that your efforts don’t matter or that your voice doesn’t count. Don’t ever believe that you can’t make a difference. You have.

Where you are right now doesn't have to determine where you'll end up.

Learning to stand in somebody else's shoes, to see through their eyes, that's how peace begins. And it's up to you to make that happen. Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world.

If somebody is different from you, that's not something you criticize, that's something that you appreciate.

The beautiful affair of sun, sky and the sea brings a perfect moment of love, peace and joy

Life begins with hope. Every seed has the hope of becoming a tree.

I think it's our obligation to play, Honor. It's just a game, so can I kiss you?”"Yes.""Plan on one minute in heaven, Honor." A split second later his lips were on hers.

Even Aristotle, master of pure reason, said: 'The friend of wisdom is also a friend of myth.

A lot of us would like to move mountains, but few of us are willing to practice on small hills.

To die should be the most interesting journey of all the journeys a person can take.

Gratitude gives birth to gratitude and ingratitude creates more ingratitude.

Everything begins in the mind. If you want to see clearly, you need clear vision.

Band-Aids don't fix bullet holes. You say sorry just for show. You live like that, you live with ghosts.

Nothing extraordinary happens to a cricketer if you time his career - which is very short.