The nobility of England would have snored through the Sermon on the Mount. But you'll labor like scholars over a bulldog's pedigree.

When statesmen forsake their own private conscience for the sake of their public duties, they lead their country by a short route to chaos.

Lord, grant us rest tonight, and if we must be wakeful, cheerful.

RICH I’m lamenting. I’ve lost my innocence.CROMWELL You lost that some time ago. If you’ve only just noticed, it can’t have been very important to you.

Do what you love or die a slow death doing what you hate

Dream anything hard enough, and it can be yours.

There is a savage beast in every man, and when you hand that man a sword or spear and send him forth to war, the beast stirs.

For children are innocent and love justice, while most of us are wicked and naturally prefer mercy.

Let me have you in the most intimate ofways, let me give you a part of myself that no other man may touch.Make me yours forever.

I can carry a tune with a three-note range. Once I'm out of that range, I'm in trouble.

When I had my daughter, Louisanna, two and a half years ago, I started recording every funny or sweet thing she said or did on my phone.

I would call an intellectual one whose instrument of work - his mind - is also his major source of pleasure; a man whose entertainment is his intelligence.

As long as we respond predictably to what feels good and what feels bad, it is easy for others to exploit our preferences for their own ends.

The same church members who yell like Comanche Indians at a ball game on Saturday sit like wooden Indians in church on Sunday.