In the seventeenth year of my age my mother died.

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.

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.

That’s when I have to ask him. “Can you really talk like that? Being holy and all?”“What? Because I’m a priest?” He finishes the dregs of his coffee. “Sure. God knows what’s important.

Middle age: when you're sitting at home on Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.

Everything they say about Elvis today is true. He was just one great guy. He wasn't jealous of anyone. I would say Elvis was really someone special when you add it all up.

I was always into sports games. Never really played anything else. I grew up on games like Madden and NBA Jam.

I love my job. I whoop people for truckloads of cash. How could I hate this life? I love it so much. I'm grateful every single day.

You can't imagine anything like nature as we know it without predators.

There is competition in Zen. Let's not be ridiculous. There is competition in everything in life; being a winner in Zen means, competing and winning in the world of enlightenment.

I feel the need of attaining the maximum of intensity with the minimum of means. It is this which has led me to give my painting a character of even greater bareness.

I was playing the best football of my career at the time, finishing top scorer in Italy three year's running. There were other good players around but I think I was the best at that time.

Some of y'all are not where you want to be in life, yet you party every weekend. What is it that you’re celebrating?