Life to most Greeks may be either tragic or comic or a mixture of both; but one thing it never is - and that is, meaningless.

Men who use terrorism as a means to power, rule by terror once they are in power.

Nothing is interesting if you're not interested.

Life to most Greeks may be either tragic or comic or a mixture of both; but one thing it never is - and that is, meaningless.

Civilization is a perishable commodity.

Just remember enough never to be vulnerable again: total forgetting could be as self-destructive as complete remembering.

And it's the educated barbarian who is the worst: he knows what to destroy.