During the holiday season, it's easy to forget that sometimes the best gift of all is simply the gift of time. I can't think of anything a writer would appreciate more than being given time and space to work.

You don't have to be good at something to be liked.

Stephen Richards

It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.

Tyler Durden

Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.

Novalis

Back in the days when men were hunters and chest beaters and women spent their whole lives worrying about pregnancy or dying in childbirth, they often had to be taken against their will. Men complained that women were cold, unresponsive, frigid. They wanted their women wanton. They wanted their women wild. Now women were finally learning to be wanton and wild -- and what happened? The men wilted.

Erica Jong

We do not do well except when we know where the best is and when we are assured that we have touched it and hold its power within us.

Joseph Joubert

Most vices may be committed very genteelly: a man may debauch his friend's wife genteelly: he may cheat at cards genteelly

Samuel Johnson

The real enemy can always be met and conquered, or won over. Real antagonism is based on love, a love which has not recognized itself.

Henry Miller

I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.

Orson Scott Card

Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation.

Elizabeth Drew

Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.

Wendell Berry

Six hours for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool.

English Proverb

There's something about being with a group of people who become like family that must be needed in society.

Jacqueline Bisset