Thanksgiving is a time when the world gets to see just how blessed and how workable the Christian system is. The emphasis is not on giving or buying, but on being thankful and expressing that appreciation to God and to one another.

The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.

P. J. O'Rourke

Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.

Honore de Balzac

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.

Samuel Johnson

Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.

George Eliot

Hope is the dream of a soul awake.

Proverb

My favorite things in life don't cost any money. It's really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.

Steve Jobs

Movies are not about the weekend that they're released, and in the grand scheme of things, that's probably the most unimportant time of a film's life.

Quentin Tarantino

Our most tragic error may have been our inability to establish a rapport and a confidence with the press and television with the communication media. I don't think the press has understood me.

Lyndon B. Johnson

I am an aristocrat. I love liberty I hate equality.

John Randolph

There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.

Jane Austen

I was the youngest child and got a lot more freedom than my brother and sister. I used to wander, doing my own thing under the radar, but I didn't get in bad, bad trouble.

Paul Giamatti

Charles V. said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; and Alexander the Great so valued learning, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge that, than his father Philip for giving him life.

Thomas Babington Macaulay