Don't let the past steal your present. This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone.

The only thing that can spoil a day is people and if you can keep from making engagements, every day has no limits.

Ernest Hemingway

Pray as if everything depends on God. Work as if everything depends on you.

Augustine of Hippo

There's the risk of being loved...and that would keep me from being happy.

Albert Camus

Live dangerously and you live right.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

This is nourishing, redemptive we become less alone inside.

David Foster Wallace

Beautiful isle of the sea, Smile on the brow of the waters.

George Cooper

Success is the sum of small efforts - repeated day in and day out.

Robert Collier

For, after all, every one who wishes to gain true knowledge must climb the Hill Difficulty alone, and since there is no royal road to the summit, I must zigzag it in my own way. I slip back many times, I fall, I stand still, I run against the edge of hidden obstacles, I lose my temper and find it again and keep it better, I trudge on, I gain a little, I feel encouraged, I get more eager and climb higher and begin to see the widening horizon. Every struggle is a victory. One more effort and I reach the luminous cloud, the blue depths of the sky, the uplands of my desire.

Helen Keller

Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.

James A. Baldwin

This is the city of dreamers and time and again it's the place where the greatest dream of all, the American dream, has been tested and has triumphed.

Michael Bloomberg

Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Robin G. Collingwood

The conversion of agnostic High Tories to the Anglican church is always rather suspect. It seems too pat and predictable, too clearly a matter of politics rather than faith.

Terry Eagleton