For me, the spirit of Christmas means being happy and giving freely. It's a tradition for all the kids in the family to help mom decorate the tree. Christmas is all about family, eating, drinking and making merry.

As a planning board commissioner, I have to review the applications for development throughout the city, and the bulk of those applications have been for the waterfront. I think the progress the waterfront has made is amazing.

Vincent Frank

The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.

Andre Malraux

When you aim for perfection, you discover it's a moving target.

Geoffrey F. Fisher

The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.

William Gibson

Advice is like castor oil, easy to give, but dreadful to take.

Josh Billings

I grew up in a home environment where I wasn't getting esteem for anything I did.

Ben Affleck

The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.

Francis Bacon

Everybody sung in my family.

Rod Stewart

All stories are love stories.

Robert McLiam Wilson

Like beauty, stardom too is skin-deep.

Shahrukh Khan

Sometimes it takes a lowly, title-less man to humble the world. Kings, rulers, CEOs, judges, doctors, pastors, they are already expected to be greater and wiser.

Criss Jami

I suppose one has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.

Alice James