I put the copy of 'A Christmas Carol' that my grandfather had first read to me 60 years ago on my desk, and I began to write. The result, for better or for worse, is the 'Christmas Spirits.' I plan to read it to my grandson.

As I grew older, I realized that it was much better to insist on the genuine forms of nature, for simplicity is the greatest adornment of art.

Albrecht Durer

There's people making babies to my music. That's nice.

Barry White

To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.

Friedrich von Schiller

I believe that we parents must encourage our children to become educated, so they can get into a good college that we cannot afford.

Dave Barry

When I was research head of General Motors and wanted a problem solved, I'd place a table outside the meeting room with a sign: LEAVE SLIDE RULES HERE! If I didn't do that, I'd find some engineer reaching for his slide rule. Then he'd be on his feet saying, Boss you can't do that.

Charles Franklin Kettering

With affection beaming in one eye, and calculation shining out of the other.

Charles Dickens

There are only three sins - causing pain, causing fear, and causing anguish. The rest is window dressing.

Roger Caras

I spent a year in that town, one Sunday.

George Burns

Democracy is less a system of government than it is a system to keep government limited, unintrusive; a system of constraints on power to keep politics and government secondary to the important things in life, the true sources of value found only in

Ronald Reagan

Life is the inside of a box, and we can't open it.

Siddharth Katragadda

Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.

George Santayana

Not he who has little, but he whose wishes more, is poor.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)