When you give up yourself, that's when you will feel the true spirit of Christmas. And that's giving that's serving others and that's when you feel fulfilled.

My path has not been determined. I shall have more experiences and pass many more milestones.

Agnetha Faltskog

I think the first duty of society is justice.

Alexander Hamilton

At times, we were forced to go through a history of dependence, unable to determine our own destiny. But today, we are at the threshold of a new turning point.

Roh Moo-hyun

It rots a writer's brain, it cretinises you. You say the same thing again and again, and when you do that happily you're well on the way to being a cretin. Or a politician.

John Updike

Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.

William Blake

The secret of biography resides in finding the link between talent and achievement. A biography seems irrelevant if it doesn't discover the overlap between what the individual did and the life that made this possible. Without discovering that, you have shapeless happenings and gossip.

Leon Edel

The conscious purpose of science is control of Nature; its unconscious effect is disruption and chaos.

William Irwin Thompson

Nobody believed the 'Food Network' could last. Even I was short sighted and thought to myself, 24 hours of food on TV? They'll run out of things to talk about in four days! But that wasn't true. 'Food Network' continues to get better and evolve.

Bobby Flay

I suppose I'm proudest of my novels for what's imagined in them. I think the world of my imagination is a richer and more interesting place than my personal biography.

John Irving

We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.

J.K. Rowling

An unjust peace is better than a just war.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

A little rebellion now and then... is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.

Thomas Jefferson