It may be a cliche, but it's true - the build-up to Christmas is so much more pleasurable than the actual day itself.

Like my dad, I have a Christmas party most years. I like to celebrate and see as many people as possible.

Lauren Graham

Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Chance is the one thing you can't buy. You have to pay for it and you have to pay for it with your life, spending a lot of time, you pay for it with time, not the wasting of time but the spending of time.

Robert Doisneau

I love my man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands my homage; and even then the submission is to reason, and not to man.

Mary Wollstonecraft

Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.

Dale Carnegie

If there were such a thing as terminal literalism, you'd have died in childhood.

Cassandra Clare

Was man über Angst erreichte, das wurde stets auch mit Angst bezahlt. Die Mächtigen fielen irgendwann genauso der Hybris der Macht zum Opfer, wie die Ohnmächtigen dem Zorn über ihre Machtlosigkeit.

David Gray

Sacred spaces can be created in any environment.

Christy Turlington

There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.

Mark Twain

Open suspecting of others comes of secretly condemning ourselves.

Sir Philip Sidney

I am the man of your dreams. Go back to sleep.?

Jarod Kintz

How rare it is to find a soul quiet enough to hear God speak.

Francois Fenelon