Science can be effective in the national welfare only as a member of a team, whether the conditions be peace or war. But without scientific progress no amount of achievement in other directions can insure our health, prosperity, and security as a nation in the modern world.

Christmas gives us the opportunity to pause and reflect on the important things around us - a time when we can look back on the year that has passed and prepare for the year ahead.

David Cameron

We love ourselves notwithstanding our faults, and we ought to love our friends in like manner.

Cyrus the Great

She felt happy these days, yet there was always an undercurrent of sadness just below the surface

Diane Chamberlain

I am coming to feel that the people of ill will have used time much more effectively than the people of goodwill. We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people. We must come to see that human progress never rolls in on wheels of inevitability. It comes through the tireless efforts and persistent work of men willing to be co-workers with God, and without this hard work time itself becomes an ally of the forces of social stagnation. We must use time creatively, and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right. Now is the time to make real the promise of democracy, and transform our pending national elegy into a creative psalm of brotherhood. Now is the time to lift our national policy from the quicksand of racial injustice to the solid rock of human dignity.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

The way that a handful of corporations in Los Angeles dictate how our stories are told creates a real poverty of imagination and it's a big problem.

Alex Cox

I was just doing my job in the ring and doing my best to make people happy.

Manny Pacquiao

Just as women are afraid of receiving, men are afraid of giving.

John Gray

Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat. Concentrate on your strengths, instead of your weaknesses... on your powers, instead of your problems.

Paul J. Meyer

In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.

Leo Tolstoy

We do not trust the goodwill of the U.S. They have cut the ties.

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

The only thing that makes one place more attractive to me then another is the quantity of heart I find in it.

Jane Welsh Carlyle

I never really did Christmas before. Christmas Day? I mean - what's that? What's it all about? I was always flying on Christmas Day.

Monica Seles