When faith is kneeling by his bed of death, And innocence is closing up his eyes, Now if thou would'st, when all have given him over, From death to life, thou might'st him yet recover

The Falcon and the Dove sit there together, And th 'one of them doth prune the others feather.

With much we surfeit; plenty makes us poor.

It is your virtue, being men, to try; And it is ours, by virtue to deny.

Better sit still, than rise to meet the devil.

All transitory titles I detest; a virtuous life I mean to boast alone. Our birth's our sires'; our virtues be our own.

Since there's no help, come let us kiss and part.

Thus when we fondly flatter our desires, Our best conceits do prove the greatest liars.

So in all humours sportively I range; My muse is rightly of the English strain, That cannot long one fashion entertain.

Care draws on care, woe comforts woe again, Sorrow breeds sorrow, on grief brings forth twain.

When Time shall turne those Amber Lockes to Gray.

God is all-knowing, all-powerful and all-bountiful.

My parents were always philosophizing about how to bring about change. To me, people who didn't try to make the world a better place were strange.

I'm going to cut regulations.

How can a parliamentarian or a leader in a country say, on the one hand, that we're going to support Greece but at the same time say that Greeks are lazy?

Just because you've seen something doesn't mean you'll stop looking. There's always something you didn't see before.

Commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still.

I remember being fascinated by the very nature of comedy from the age of 10; why is this funny, and that isn't?

I haven't been to a job interview since I was 16 years old. When I was approached by Givenchy it was more like a courtship.

I don't want to have the threat of the sky falling on my head or some idiot pushing some button that sets off World War Three.

If [the shooting of Gabby Giffords in] Tucson tells us anything at all, it tells us this: Government has failed.