Countries are not like financial markets. Social change cannot be executed as swiftly as credit-default swaps. You cannot sell short on social commitments and practical responsibilities.

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.

Shame on the misguided, the blinded, the distracted and the divided. Shame. You have allowed deceptive men to corrupt and desensitize your hearts and minds to unethically fuel their greed.

Your thoughts are magnets. You attract what you think, and it becomes your reality.

If you continuously plant the right seeds in your mind, a life of abundance would become highly inevitable in your life.

I beg the Most High to allow me the favour of the double reward, but if God only finds me worthy of one reward, I will accept it in all humility.

Greatness in the kingdom of God is measured in terms of obedience.

God knows everything. So why not run to him and tell him all the things that he already knows?

I never did anything with the early recordings I made, I felt they weren't worthy.

Man is the measure of all things, of the reality of those which are, and of the unreality of those which are not.

Do we live for or do we live off philanthropy?

As knowledge grew, fear decreased; men thought less of worshiping the unknown, and more of overcoming it.