At the Royall Oake Taverne, I drank a sort of French wine called Ho Bryan, that hath a good and most particular taste that I never met with.

Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody.

Strange to say what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

As happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!

Thanks be to God, since my leaving drinking of wine, I do find myself much better, and do mind my business better, and do spend less money, and less time lost in idle company.

I went out to Charing Cross to see Major General Harrison hanged, drawn, and quartered; which was done there, he looking as cheerful as any man could in that condition.

Unlike God the artist does not start with nothing and make something of it. He starts with himself as nothing and makes something of the nothing with the things at hand.

Before I went to bed, I sat up till 2 a-clock in my chamber, reading of Mr. Hooke's Microscopical Observations, the most ingenious book that I ever read in my life.

I know not how to abstain from reading.

I went home and took my wife and went to my Cosen Tho. Pepys's and found them just sat down to dinner, which was very good; only the venison pasty was palpable beef, which was not handsome.

The best of a bad bargain.

Appreciate her for who she is.

For the kids, who in their lives have never known the slightest power, delinquency is a way of looking for power.

I was known around the college for jamming in the lounge.

Some people get rich studying artificial intelligence. Me, I make money studying natural stupidity.

The Japanese are great at inventing complex systems of rules, and not so great at explaining those rules to foreign visitors.

Yoga is not a new path to follow but a way to become conscious of the original impetus of life. Yoga is the movement and evolution of Life itself.

When a man says that he is perfect already, there is only one of two places for him, and that is heaven or the lunatic asylum.

I like to knuckle down and get on with my job. I'll make mistakes, I'm bound to, but I'll write them down and I'll learn from them.

Use a sweet tongue, courtesy, and gentleness, and thou mayest manage to guide an elephant by a hair.

The cultivation of Human Values alone is Education.