I couldn't sleep one night and I was sitting in my office and I realized that I was an independent filmmaker.
In the seventeenth year of my age my mother died.
I believe God rules all by his divine providence and that the stars by his permission are instruments.
Ambition hath but two steps: the lowest, blood; the highest, envy.
Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.
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.
I've been on the road for so long that it's a part of my being. Even after all these years, I love playing. I love recording. I love writing. I love rehearsing. I love touring. I love all that stuff.
Like NASCAR race drivers or PGA golfers, why not require each of the [US presidential] candidates to cover their clothing, briefcases and staff with the logo patches of their corporate sponsors?
[Jesus] teaches that just as the sun gives light to both wicked and good, and the rain brings nourishment to righteous and unrighteous, God's compassion embraces all people. There are no pre-conditions for it, nothing we need to do first, nothing we have to believe. When we are ready to receive it, it is already there. And the more we live in its presence, the more effortlessly if flows through us, until we find that we no longer need external rules or Bibles or Messiahs.
God makes confetti out of our titles and accomplishments to celebrate the poor and the humble.