But me thought it lessened my esteem of a king, that he should not be able to command the rain.

Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody.

Strange to say what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

As happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!

Thanks be to God, since my leaving drinking of wine, I do find myself much better, and do mind my business better, and do spend less money, and less time lost in idle company.

I went out to Charing Cross to see Major General Harrison hanged, drawn, and quartered; which was done there, he looking as cheerful as any man could in that condition.

Unlike God the artist does not start with nothing and make something of it. He starts with himself as nothing and makes something of the nothing with the things at hand.

Before I went to bed, I sat up till 2 a-clock in my chamber, reading of Mr. Hooke's Microscopical Observations, the most ingenious book that I ever read in my life.

I know not how to abstain from reading.

I went home and took my wife and went to my Cosen Tho. Pepys's and found them just sat down to dinner, which was very good; only the venison pasty was palpable beef, which was not handsome.

The best of a bad bargain.

True sorrow is as rare as true love.

People still come up to me and ask me to sign their records. That's right, records! Man, they don't even make records no more!

I've got a theory: if you love your workspace, you'll love your work a little more.

I use the word nursing for want of a better.

As I am, so are others as others are, so am I. Having thus identified self and others, harm no one nor have them harmed.

Dance music is Madonna's base. It's what she likes, it's what she listens to. It's not anything other than that. She doesn't read what's on the charts. And if it's on time, great. This is who she is.

Greatness inspires envy, envy engenders spite, spite spawns lies.

I didn't do anything differently than what my father was doing. It's a really hard family to rebel in. I could have become an accountant. Or I could have become a Republican.

I always had difficulty as a model just being myself. I can be very shy, and I used to have a lot of anxiety about working on set.

I will not live without love.