Every Christmas now for years, I have found myself wondering about the point of the celebration. As the holiday has become more ecumenical and secular, it has lost much of the magic that I remember so fondly from childhood.

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Emily Dickinson

I wouldn't say I'm a very original thinker, but if I have a good experience with something, I'll want to take it further or adapt it in some way.

Gwyneth Paltrow

The hardest part is to travel, and to be away from your family.

Glenn Tipton

'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Hide not your talents, they for use were made,What's a sundial in the shade?

Benjamin Franklin

I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimately united; and when one suffers, the other sympathizes.

Lord Chesterfield

so that it may grow fatter and

Virginia Woolf

He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.

Cesare Pavese

It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible.

Henry Ward Beecher

Perhaps people, and kids especially, are spoiled today, because all the kids today have cars, it seems. When I was young you were lucky to have a bike.

James Cagney

My normal cycle for movies is eighteen months and each part is separate.

M. Night Shyamalan

You may not have been responsible for your heritage, but you are responsible for your future.

Anonymous