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

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.

Strange, to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition, every man and wife gazing and smiling at them.

Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.

Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

Thanks be to God. Since my leaving the 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.

Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

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

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

I'm one of those people who always tries to overachieve. I want to do more. I want to do bigger things.

Every chance taken is another chance to win.

When you publish a book, it's the world's book. The world edits it.

I have a theory that the secret of marital happiness is simple: drink in different pubs to your other half.

Politeness induces morality. Serenity of manners requires serenity of mind.

Music has always been my first love, so making music happen is a big priority of mine.

I think that women out there should just be happy with how they look, and they shouldn't really try to conform to any stereotype. Just be happy and, hopefully, healthy.

If you have an architecture of control, let's say, where you select in advance everything that's going to affect your life, then you're going to live in a very small world that will have an echo chamber feature... Pandora, which I love, actually feeds into that.

I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilised music in the world.

I love to read and I love to write. I love to read. You have no idea how many books I have. I love to sing.

I don't know how anybody can work at home. I know I can't. It's just... there's too much to do at the house, and now, of course, I have a daughter that's at home, and she's always a draw. I can always drop what I'm doing and go play with her, and I do that all day.

Eighteen years ago, the Holy Spirit led me to establish a church in the heart of Times Square.

To be honest, I rewrote 'Wicked Nights' a number of times. I just wasn't happy with the end result.

I got my first acting role because I was a singer.

I think there is no reason for us to bring to Islamism or political Islam the fear and ignorance of Western commentators and their hysterical vocabulary.

Disco does work better with black artists or players. They just feel it more.

Before you look for validation in others, try and find it in yourself.

I do know this: God does answer your prayers, but it's not always in the way you expect. God knows what's best for us, though, so there's no need to worry when things don't go how we originally wanted them to go.

Especially working in infectious disease, it's very interesting because these infectious diseases, these agents, they evolve over time. So it's very much an arms race and understanding how each changes to protect itself and to continue. And so it's very much this puzzle-solving but with this great urgency and importance in what you find.

There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.

I like directors who come on the set and create something that's a little dangerous, difficult or unusual.

France, land of human rights and freedoms, was attacked on its own soil by a totalitarian ideology: Islamic fundamentalism. It is only by refusing to be in denial, by looking the enemy in the eye, that one can avoid conflating issues.

After I die, I'll be forgotten.

His nerve, his memory, and I can't remember the third thing.