Christmas is the spirit of giving without a thought of getting. It is happiness because we see joy in people. It is forgetting self and finding time for others. It is discarding the meaningless and stressing the true values.

Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that's the whole art and joy of words.

C.S. Lewis

As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note.

Seamus Heaney

Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.

Blaise Pascal

A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.

Emily Bronte

What you say about this world I do not quite agree with I think it a very good world, and only requires a person to be reasonable in his expectations, and not to trust too much to others.

William John Wills

We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased, we are glad. If they are not, it doesn't matter. We know we are beautiful. And ugly too. The tom-tom cries and the tom-tom laughs. If colored people are pleased, we are glad. If they are not, it doesn't matter either. We build our temples for tomorrow, strong as we know how, and we stand on top of the mountain, free within ourselves.

Langston Hughes

As much as I love crisp, clean whites, there's always a time for rich but balanced Chardonnays with oak, especially at Thanksgiving.

Gary Vaynerchuk

I've done everything I wanted to do, even if I have had to pay a very high price - which has been the case most of the time.

Paulo Coelho

The idea really came to me the day I got my new false teeth.

George Orwell

Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I think I might love you too, Charter help me, but now is-

Garth Nix

Now I know from this very word and deed of yours what free choice is and is capable of, namely, madness.

Martin Luther King Jr.