"If some of the greats had followed the traditional ways we would be missing so much fine art."

“To withhold our bodies from religion is to exclude religion from our lives.”

“In a deal, you give and take. You compromise. Then you grab the cash and catch the next train out of town.”

“Our faith in democracy, personal freedoms and human 'rights', and the other comforting prescriptions of the humanist liberal credo stem from the supremacy of maritime over territorial power. Pragmatists may deplore this as crude determinism, as another vain attempt to construct a general theory of history. They should reflect on the sort of political philosophy and structures we might now adhere to had the Habsburgs, Bourbons, Bonaparte, Hitler, Stalin or his heirs prevailed in the titanic world struggles of the past four centuries.”

Source : Peter Padfield (2000). “Maritime Supremacy & the Opening of the Western Mind: Naval Campaigns that Shaped the Modern World”, Overlook Books

“The question is not whether we wish to see everybody as well off as possible. Among men of good will such an aim can be taken for granted. The real question concerns the proper means of achieving it. And in trying to answer this we must never lose sight of a few elementary truisms. We cannot distribute more wealth than is created. We cannot in the long run pay labor as a whole more than it produces.”

“My mum always told me I was precious, while my dad always told me I was worthless. I think that's a good grounding for a balanced life.”

Source : Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. August 21, 2009.

“The only people who put iced tea in Jack Daniel's bottles is the Clash baby!!”

“You must do what you want.”

“Battles are won, not with weapons, but with God. They are won where the way leads to the cross.”