I believe God rules all by his divine providence and that the stars by his permission are instruments.

Of my infancy I can speak little, only I do remember that in the fourth year of my age I had the measles.

Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.

If people suspect their Cattle Bewitched, if they be great Cattle, make the twelfth house their ascendant, and the eleventh their twelfth house, and vary your Rules with Judgment.

After my mistress was dead, I lived most comfortably, my master having a great affection for me.

After that his Majesty was beheaded, the Parliament for some years effected nothing either for the publick peace or tranquillity of the nation, or settling religion as they had formerly promised.

In the seventeenth year of my age my mother died.

Ambition hath but two steps: the lowest, blood; the highest, envy.

In this year 1634, I purchased the moiety of thirteen houses in the Strand for five hundred and thirty pounds.

And he looked lonely enough that she said, 'If you like, you could be my friend'.

Free your mind completely to find true peace in this world.

I think you had the GOP down there in North Carolina reaching out to African-American voters and this guy coming on television and using the N-word and saying what Don Yelton said.

Power is sexy, not simply in its own right, but because it inspires self-confidence in its owner and a shiver of subservience on the part of those who approach it.

I want to make great songs.

He looked at her and for a moment she lived in the bright blue worlds of his eyes, eagerly and confidently.

It doesnt matter who is playing or how old they are. I just worry about what I can control. It doesnt give me more or less motivation.

It is possible to call Tolstoy Kitsch.

He who labours not, cannot enjoy the reward of labour.

It isn't glamorous until after the film is finished, and you are at the premiere and getting your picture on the cover of magazines.