Christmas is more stressful with present buying and making sure everyone gets included, but Thanksgiving is really not that. I don't ever really get stressed out about the food.

But with exquisite breathing you smile, with satisfaction of love, And I touch you again as you tick in the silence and settle in sleep.

Karl Shapiro

I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs, and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.

George Eliot

We can only write well about our sins because it is too difficult to recall a virtuous act or even whether it was the result of good or evil motives.

Edward Dahlberg

A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.

James Freeman Clarke

One of the best ways to persuade others is with your ears - by listening to them.

Dean Rusk

I love my mom. My mom loves me. We don't have an easy relationship. I don't think we ever will, but I'd rather have a complicated, misunderstood relationship than have no relationship at all.

Tori Spelling

Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Grateful souls focus on the happiness and abundance present in their lives and this in turn attracts more abundance and joy towards them.

Stephen Richards

The truth doesn't have to do with cruelty, the truth has to do with mercy.

Ken Kesey

The tourist who moves about to see and hear and open himself to all the influences of the places which condense centuries of human greatness is only a man in search of excellence.

Max Lerner

The mind is not a hermit's cell, but a place of hospitality and intercourse.

Charles Horton Cooley

I'm afraid of being average. I have a real fear of being just another linebacker.

Junior Seau