Europe is a strong market for the U.S. If it has problems, if there's a lack of consumer confidence, if there's a deeper recession, this will deeply affect jobs in the U.S.

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.

Turn your pain into purpose.

Don't let circumstances determine your fate. Choose your fate and mold circumstances to fit your fate of choice.

What could be more intimate than dying with someone?

What wonder, then, if human beings in their search for the divine have generally preferred to look within!

You want a novel to tap as directly as possible into your most unspeakable preoccupations. And in America, in particular, cricket is pretty unspeakable.

Alas, the spheres of truth are less transparent than those of illusion.

Think bigger. Forget limits. Embrace the idea of endless possibility.... It will change you.

I feel self-repressed again. The old fall disease. Where is my willpower? The idea of a life gets in the way of my life...I dream too much, work too little.

People have a good time with all the catch phrases.

I don't like cursing in movies. I feel like cursing has become the new hackiness. You try to find substitutions for cursing.