Of my infancy I can speak little, only I do remember that in the fourth year of my age I had the measles.

I believe God rules all by his divine providence and that the stars by his permission are instruments.

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.

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

He was too gorgeous for words and worst yet he knew it.

I could hardly sleep and even when I did drop off, I awoke to a grim thought: I’m disgusting. I can’t play any more. I went to bed with Dudek and all his Liverpool team-mates.

The desire for economic prosperity is itself not culturally determined but almost universally shared

I love to entertain. And I love the sound of people enjoying themselves.

I don't like recording studios - except my own, which is just a little room above the garage.

Often continuity is visible only in retrospect.

We must not look for some kind of Messiah.

I’m afraid of love, because it involves things that are beyond our understanding; it sheds such a brilliant light, but the shadow it casts frightens me.

Politics is very interesting and always leads to conflict.

New facts often trigger new ideas