However, music and women I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.

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.

Explanations can’t explain love--only deep perception can do that.

The greatest artist and web-designer ever is indeed a spider!

We lose the fear of making decisions great and small as we realize that should our choice prove wrong we can if we will learn from the experience.

Why must we hide, Behind walls built high?N' blame our lives, On him, her, I?

If I do get nervous for a game, they usually go away after the first play. For the Super Bowl, it never went away.

There is no weather in malls.

Usually, the best ideas come from having to fix a really hard problem.

Phew am exhausted. Just read about something called "the offside rule". Too much for my tiny brain. Must be damaged from nail polish fumes.

I don't advocate violence; but if a man steps on my toes, I'll step on his.

Without love of something I don't know if you can have a meaningful life at all.