I pant for retirement and leisure, but am doomed to inexpressible and almost unsupportable hurry.

Sorry am I to say, I have often observed that I have performed worst when I most ardently wished to do better than ever.

. . . I believe one half of the world is born for the convenience of the other half . . .

Alas, how wretched is the being who depends on the stability of public favour!

. . . I know, by sad experience, with what difficulty a mind, weakened by long and uninterrupted suffering, admits hope, much less assurance.

I don't write about you because you don't deserve to be immortalised in my words.I'll leave you to float around in my mind until forgetfulness comes to take you away.

God didn't call me to kill me. He called me to glory and virtue. My body has dropped on His feet to follow me home no more. Who the son of God set free is free indeed.

All other goods by fortune's hand are given: A wife is the peculiar gift of Heav'n.

Ask any human being alive if they're the same person they were seven years ago and they're going to tell you they aren't.

President Bush announced that the war in Iraq has been won. It's all over, it's been won. I believe this would be Bush's first uncontested victory.

"Pay him what was promised", said the caliph. "And put out his eyes."

Liberty is the hardest test that one can inflict on a people. To know how to be free is not given equally to all men and all nations.

Well, some people die and then they sell more records, go figure.

I didn't know what some of the stuff on Astral Weeks was about until years later.

Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounce it to you, trippingly on the tongue; but if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines.