"It is hardly a moral act to encourage others patiently to accept injustice which he himself does not endure."

“Architecture is an expression of values.”

Source : Interview with Max Tholl, www.theeuropean-magazine.com. October 16, 2014.

“I think the funds that have been pledged at Euro Summit, combined with the outcome of the private sector involvement process should be sufficient in order to support financially the Greek Economy.”

Source : "Greek PM: Two Deals But No Drachma Ahead Cnbc’s Chief International Correspondent Michelle Caruso-Cabrera Speaks With Greek Prime Minister Lucas Papademos". Interview with Michelle Caruso-Cabrera, www.cnbc.com. January 15, 2012.

“If I'm going to be out there, I want to be in the top 10 and really have a chance of winning a Grand Slam.”

“Every fiction since Homer has taught friendship, patriotism, generosity, contempt of death. These are the highest virtues; and the fictions which taught them were therefore of the highest, though not of unmixed, utility.”

Source : Sir James Mackintosh (1835). “Memoirs of the life of the Right Honorable Sir James Mackintosh”, p.42

“You know who is against democracy in the Middle East? The husbands. They got used to their way of life. Now, the traditional way of life must change. Everybody must change. If you don't give equal rights to women, you can't progress.”

“I want to be like Bruce Springsteen or something, making songs that are relevant.”

“They are all my favourites. All of them.”

“But it became clear very quickly that I'd underestimated how much I liked him. Not him, perhaps, but the fact that I had someone on the other end of an invisible line. Someone to update and get updates from, to inform of a comic discovery, to imagine while dancing in a lonely basement, and to return to, finally, when the music stopped.”

Source : Marina Keegan (2014). “The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories”, p.11, Simon and Schuster