And if you can't shape your life the way you want, at least try as much as you can not to degrade it.

To certain people there comes a day when they must say the great Yes or the great No.

And if you can't shape your life the way you want, at least try as much as you can not to degrade it.

That we've broken their statues, that we've driven them out of their temples, doesn't mean at all that the gods are dead. O land of Ionia, they're still in love with you, their souls still keep your memory.

The frivolous can call me frivolous. I've always been most punctilious about important things. And I insist that no one knows better than I do the Holy Fathers, or the Scriptures, or the Canons of the Councils.

When you set out on your journey to Ithaca, pray that the road is long, full of adventure, full of knowledge.

And from this marvellous pan-Hellenic expedition, triumphant, brilliant in every way, celebrated on all sides, glorified incomparable, we emerged: the great new Hellenic world.