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

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.

A people's relationship to their heritage is the same as the relationship of a child to its mother.

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

I made my first album, and I guess it wasn't a fluke, because now I'm on my 16th.

There's hard lessons in this world. What's the hardest? I dont know. Maybe it's just that when things are gone they're gone. They aint comin back.

We have got to have more providers to replace those who are leaving.

If a man smiles all the time, he’s probably selling something that doesn’t work.

Wear something you feel gorgeous in and don't try too hard; it's much sexier when it appears effortless. Clothes that don't fit, or don't fit the wearer's personality, don't help.

The troops of other states have their reputation to gain, the sons of the Alamo have theirs to maintain.

A language is the appearances of connections therefore language as in writing doesn't express anything: it creates.

The spirit cannot endure the body when overfed, but, if underfed, the body cannot endure the spirit.