"Nothing more excellent or valuable than wine was every granted by the gods to man."

“When you're on the ice, you have very little time, you see very little, and everything happens really quick.”

Source : The IGN Interview, www.ign.com. December 1, 2003.

“I'm more like my father, personality-wise. But my mom and I get alone really well, obviously, because my mom and my dad get along so well.”

“It's a fascinating job, to come in and be the most interesting person in an episode. Whoever the guest star is, that's the job - to maintain the interest and the focus for that 42 minutes or whatever, and it should be a huge relief to those people that are the leads in the shows.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“In most cases, obviously, soldiers fought because a government drafted them and gave them a rifle. At every point too, we see the role of nationalistic sentiment, commercial rivalries, and simple greed. But can we ever separate out such motives from the religious? Was that not also true of the medieval crusades?”

“The family is both a biological and a cultural group. It is biologic in sense that it is the best arrangement for begetting children and protecting them while they are dependent. It is a cultural group because it brings into intimate association persons of different age and sex who renew and reshape the folkways of the society into which they are born. The household serves as a "cultural workshop" for the transmission of old traditions and for the creation of new social values.”

“We celebrate the birth of one who told us to give everything to the poor by giving each other motorized tie racks.”

“We were idealists. We thought that when we got the vote the whole pattern of politics would be greatly improved and would be dominated by women.”

“When goods are exchanged between countries, they must be paid for by commodities or gold. They cannot be paid for by the notes, certificates, and checks of the purchaser's country, since these are of value only in the country of issue.”

Source : Carroll Quigley (1966). “Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time”, New York : Macmillan [c1966]