This idea that you're a successful tough guy if you evade taxes and deceive the state has got to change.

We have made major reforms in Greece. When I took over after a landslide victory we had a mandate for change and I knew my major focus would be re-organizing the state.

Unfortunately, corruption is widespread in government agencies and public enterprises.

I am proud of being a Greek of the diaspora.

The Greek people do not want to exit the euro, and I believe the Greek people already have shown that they have made major sacrifices to stay within the Eurozone.

Greece's history in the drachma was an up-and-down history, a roller coaster.

This is global governance in the making. But we must agree, and agree to a binding commitment.

Despite the deep reforms we are making, traders and speculators have forced interest rates on Greek bonds to record highs.

There are certain moments in the history of a nation when the choices made define the decades to come.

Everyone needs to carry out his own personal revolution.

I will always be upfront with the Greek people, so we can solve the country's problems together.

Tír gan teanga, tír gan anam. A country without a language is a country without a soul.

Books measure time in both moments and years. We all grow old but the stories never will.

Far be it from me to ever let my common sense get in the way of my stupidity. I say we press on.

Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success.

I didn't want to write another book about fraudulence.

Apparently there is nothing in the news that falls between inhuman acts of horror and kittens.

I like to think of bread as really bland cake.

When there is an original sound in the world, it makes a hundred echoes.

I just know so many people who have six or seven foreign languages and have read everything and have musical training and they are still dorks

A good man is hard to find -- but you'll mostly find him asleep.