The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.

Quality in a classical Greek sense is how to live with grace and intelligence with bravery and mercy.

I think great humor lies in playing the truth of a situation. I see myself as a performer and that applies to a Greek drama or a modern comedy.

It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table than when his wife talks Greek.

Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet namely a dull ending.

And regardless of the fact that in this country certainly in the arts we treat comedy as a second-class citizen I've never thought of it that way. I've always thought it to be important. The last time I looked the Greeks were holding up two masks. I've always thought of it not only as having equal value but as the craft of it being funny.

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

If you go back to the Greeks and Romans they talk about all three - wine food and art - as a way of enhancing life.

My Mom always cooked healthy. Greek food lends itself to cooking healthy.

I don't buy into any of that hogwash. They put that out to sell tickets. It's just a classic horror movie with the Greek drama formula of good versus evil and lots of fear.

I fear the Greeks even when they bring gifts.

There is a misleading unwritten rule that states if a quote giving advice comes from someone famous very old or Greek then it must be good advice.

When I was growing up in Mississippi - it was good Southern food... but I also grew up with a Greek family when other kids were eating fried okra we were eating steamed artichokes. So I think it played a big part in my healthy cooking.

When I was a kid I took 'The Brady Bunch' and 'The Partridge Family' very seriously. It was a world to me in the same way that the Greek myths would have been had I read them. You know Marcia is Athena and Mr. Brady is Zeus.

It did remind me of something out of Greek mythology - the richest king who gets everything he wants but ultimately his family has a curse on it from the Gods.

At times of distress we all like to recall the advice of fathers and mothers. The best advice my father gave me was to keep faith and deep confidence in the potential of the Greek people nurture the belief that they can do things.