I temporarily lost my hope in love, and it was temporary, thank goodness.

The quality of mercy is not strain'd,It droppeth as the gentle rain from heavenUpon the place beneath: it is twice blest;It blesseth him that gives and him that takes:'Tis mightiest in the mightiest: it becomesThe throned monarch better than his crown;His sceptre shows the force of temporal power,The attribute to awe and majesty,Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings;But mercy is above this sceptred sway;It is enthroned in the hearts of kings,It is an attribute to God himself;And earthly power doth then show likest God'sWhen mercy seasons justice.

William Shakespeare

If equal affection cannot be,Let the more loving one be me.

W.H. Auden

I see technology as being an extension of the human body.

David Cronenberg

With women, I've got a long bamboo pole with a leather loop on the end. I slip the loop around their necks so they can't get away or come too close. Like catching snakes.

Marlon Brando

We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

General George Patton

Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.

J. K. Rowling

A man is only as good as what he loves.

Saul Bellow

Courtesy should be a continuous action, not something to be turned on and off like a faucet.

Source Unknown

Passion holds up the bottom of the universe and genius paints up its roof.

Chao Chang

The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development.

Confucius

As long as I can dream, I will dream of you.

Cassandra Clare

Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tribes, the Bores and Bored.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron