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.

So you can say, 'Get Big Government out of here, and don't tell me what to eat,' but when kids are going to school, and they're being fed junk, we're pretty much telling them what to eat, and we're telling them junk is OK.

Tom Colicchio

I confess that I cannot understand how we can plot, lie, cheat and commit murder abroad and remain humane, honorable, trustworthy and trusted at home.

Archibald Cox

I felt like I was a teacher. But nowadays, I am as much a student of his. He writes a lot of what we play.

Gary Burton

I am a hopeless romantic. And I won't stop till I get it right.

Halle Berry

Oh, the tree of life is growing where the spirit never dies And the bright light of salvation shines in dark and empty skies.

Bob Dylan

It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.

Will Durant

A man will treat a woman almost exactly the way he treats his own interior feminine. In fact, he hasn't the ability to see a woman, objectively speaking, until he has made some kind of peace with his interior woman.

Robert Johnson

You know, sometimes I feel well and vital in the world, and sometimes I just feel so distressed I want to pull my hair out by the roots.

Sharon Stone

What do I believe? As an American I believe in generosity, in liberty, in the rights of man. These are social and political faiths that are part of me, as they are, I suppose, part of all of us. Such beliefs are easy to express. But part of me too is my relation to all life, my religion. And this is not so easy to talk about. Religious experience is highly intimate and, for me, ready words are not at hand.

Adlai Stevenson

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Abraham Lincoln

Literature, the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions.

John Morley

Then I discovered that being related is no guarantee of love!

Stieg Larsson