We have magnificent brains, but we use a great deal of our brilliance to keep ourselves stuck and ignorant, to keep ourselves from not shining. We are so afraid of our beauty and radiance and brilliance because it scared the adults around us when we were children.

Every person is responsible for his own looks after 40.

Abraham Lincoln

Our sunsets have been reduced to wavelengths and frequencies. The complexities of the universe have been shredded into mathematical equations. Even our self-worth as human beings has been destroyed.

Dan Brown

Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.

Victor Borge

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

Eleanor Roosevelt

I love chicken. I would eat chicken fingers on Thanksgiving if it were socially acceptable.

Todd Barry

Well, I still write poetry, but I wouldn't call myself a poet.

David Duchovny

There is nothing that puts a man more in your debt than that he owes you nothing.

Mark Caine

It is beautiful to discover our wings and learn how to fly; flight is a beautiful process. But then to rest on the wings of God as He flies: this is divine.

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It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference.

Tom Brokaw

I travel to Jakarta, I see what an important country it is. I've been working with them for a year.

Anatoli Boukreev

A man's own self is his friend. A man's own self is his foe.

Bhagavad Gita

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