The quality of mercy is not strained It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath. It is twice blessed- It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes.

I was just looking at the jukebox. Just playing records. She said, You want to play with me?I said, Sure. How much?She says, Five bucks, two dollars for the room.Was it nice, Jack?All women are nice.

Jack Kerouac

As my sufferings mounted I soon realized that there were two ways in which I could respond to my situation -- either to react with bitterness or seek to transform the suffering into a creative force. I decided to follow the latter course.

Martin Luther King Jr.

When you say 'design,' everybody thinks of magazine pages. So it's an emotive word. Everybody thinks it's how something looks, whereas for me, design is pretty much everything.

James Dyson

If it weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.

Rodney Dangerfield

Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars.

Henry Van Dyke

I ... having filled my life with the spiritual blessings Christianity gave me, brimful of these blessings and living by them, I, like a child, not understanding them, destroy them -- that is, I wish to destroy that by which I live.

Leo Tolstoy

When you feel the desire for power, you should stay in solitude for some time.

Leo Tolstoy

The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.

Andre Breton

I just like the company of beautiful women. I have a weakness in that department. And I suppose because I am fairly well off and a famous musician, I'm up for grabs. And that makes me an eligible bachelor in the press.

Eric Clapton

I started skydiving because I loved the idea of freedom.

Felix Baumgartner

As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.

James Madison

Ben Says: When we learn to control our minds on how we think...we will begin to control the direction of our lives. So begin to think great and live the same.Timothy PinaBullying Ben

Timothy Pina