Find myself £43 worse than I was the last month ... chiefly arisen from my layings-out in clothes for myself and wife; viz., for her, about £12, and for myself, £55 or thereabouts.

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.

Insecurity is lack of self love. When your fountain of self love is alive, you will be one with people.

The culture of the Epic Fail, in its rituals of comic sacrifice, is a culture of sublimated predation.

Only good things come from God's hands. He never gives you more than you can bear. Every burden prepares you for eternity.

The hardest thing of all for a soldier is to retreat.

I believe that anyone who doesn't read remains dumb. Even if they know how, failing to regularly ingest the written word dooms them to ignorance, no matter what else they have or do.

The bride, the white bride today a maiden, tomorrow a wife.

We worship education but hate learning.

There is no history, only histories.

No society can possibly be built on a denial of individual freedom.

I adore this adventure, I adore working with youth. For me it's a daily challenge, working to help these youths realize their dreams.