The spirit of Christmas is the spirit of love and of generosity and of goodness. It illuminates the picture window of the soul, and we look out upon the world's busy life and become more interested in people than in things.

Sometimes you can cattle rope your heart and sometimes you can't, is all.

Deb Caletti

The goal of my Foundation is to give young people a chance to better themselves and establish a base for a successful future.

Junior Seau

Then she was kissing him as she had never kissed him before...and it was blissful oblivion, better than firewhisky; she was the only real thing in the world.

J.K. Rowling

I wanted to be an astronaut and wanted to go to space camp, but then I found out that I was too short to become an astronaut. My mom really made me believe that if I worked hard enough and if I really wanted to do it, I could do it.

Soleil Moon Frye

Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.

Samuel Johnson

If you can find the line between sympathetic and creepy, you have reached a very funny area.

Jason Segel

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

Abraham Lincoln

It is not enough to show people how to live better: there is a mandate for any group with enormous powers of communication to show people how to be better.

Marya Mannes, "A Word to the Wiz

It is not the criminal things that are hardest to confess, but the ridiculous and the shameful.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires.

Beverly Sills

To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary. When we take away the right to an individual name, we symbolically take away the right to be an individual. Immigration officials did this to refugees; husbands routinely do it to wives.

Erica Jong

Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas Edison