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True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.

I never really grasped how big it was when I initially got 'Alexander'; I thought, 'Ooh, this is exciting,' but after I got home, I looked back and thought, 'That was an incredible experience.' I got to work with some massive names in Hollywood, and I learnt so much, and then it really kind of struck me how life-changing it was.

When Alexander of Macedon was 33, he cried salt tears because there were no more worlds to conquer. Eric Bristow is only 27.

The world map looks smaller than ever before.

Measured in time of transport and communication, the whole round globe is now smaller than a small European country was a hundred years ago.

If I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes.

The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.

Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.

If it was in the interest of Rome to extend her conquests towards the East, and to enter on the inheritance of Alexander the Great there in all its extent, the circumstances were never more favourable for doing so than in the year 716.

The Earth reminded us of a Christmas tree ornament hanging in the blackness of space. As we got farther and farther away it diminished in size. Finally it shrank to the size of a marble, the most beautiful marble you can imagine.