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.

Of all the griefs that harass the distressed, sure the most bitter is a scornful jest

Samuel Johnson

You have to dream dreams to live dreams.

Eric Lindros

Death comes not to the living soul, nor age to the loving heart.

Phoebe Cary

In its purest sense, nicknaming is an elitist ritual practiced by those who cherish hierarchy. For preppies it's a smoke signal that allows Bunny to tell Pooky that they belong to the same tribe, while among the good old boys it serves the cause of masculine dominance by identifying Bear and Wrecker as Alpha males.

Florence King

A wise man turns chance into good fortune.

Thomas Fuller

Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.

Guy de Maupassant

WORDS IN THE HEART CANNOT BE TAKEN.

Terry Pratchett

A quitter never wins and a winner never quits

Napoleon Hill

Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.

Blaise Pascal

Mostly I have felt myself becoming a servant of sadness. I am still looking for the beauty in that.

Maggie Nelson

I - and I still consider myself, I'm sorry to tell you, a Marxist and a Communist, but I couldn't help noticing how all the best Marxist analyses are always analyses of a failure.

Slavoj Zizek

It is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all that he has to say in the fewest possible words, or his readers is sure to skip them.

John Ruskin