Reaching too deep into something not meant for you is full of pain. Figure out what you can have and work on that

Our first and last love is self-love.

Christian Nestell Bovee

It was the upward-reaching and fathomlessly hungering, heart-breaking love for the beauty of the world at its most beautiful, and, beyond that, for that beauty east of the sun and west of the moon which is past the reach of all but our most desperate desiring and is finally the beauty of Beauty itself, of Being itself and what lies at the heart of Being.

Frederick Buechner

Brain, n. An apparatus with which we think that we think... In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.

Ambrose Bierce

Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Chinese Proverb

When I get a little money, I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.

Desiderius Erasmus

My parents' divorce left me with a lot of sadness and pain and acting, and especially humour, was my way of dealing with all that.

Jennifer Aniston

As long as there are entrenched social and political distinctions between sexes, races, or classes, there will be forms of science whose main function is to rationalize and legitimize these distinctions

Elizabeth Fee

If you want to get across an idea, wrap it up in a person.

Ralph Bunche

No age seemed the age of romance to itself.

Thomas Carlyle

Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves.

Robert Southey

We cannot escape that Hollywood is in the middle of a wave of technological change. The current angst over all the implications of new entertainment technology is nothing new.

Michael Eisner

My general attitude to life is to enjoy every minute of every day. I never do anything with a feeling of, 'Oh God, I've got to do this today.'

Richard Branson