The truth is that our way of celebrating the Christmas season does spring from myriad cultures and sources, from St. Nicholas to Coca-Cola advertising campaigns.

It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.

Mark Twain

Keep a mid course between two extremes.

Ovid

There will always be those who feel more comfortable not venturing from the warmth of the hearth, but there are those who prefer to look out the window and wonder what is beyond the horizon.

Jimmy Buffett

One day when I was like 9, I heard the Beatles on the radio, and I asked my dad who they were. He told me they were the best band in the world, and I became obsessed. He started giving me their albums in sequential order, and I listened to them - and only them - until I was probably in high school.

Lukas Haas

The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.

Andrew Jackson

I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts.

Mark Twain

Just because the race is worth it, doesn't mean it's easy.

Melissa Bradley

Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

Ella Fitzgerald

As a team, you need to come from behind every once in awhile just to do it. Good for the attitude. It makes it exciting. And when everybody knows you have to throw it... that makes it fun too.

Dan Marino

I have not wasted my life trifling with literary fools in taverns, as Johnson did, when he should have been shaking England with the thunder of his spirit

George Bernard Shaw

Loud peace propaganda makes war seem imminent.

David Herbert Lawrence

A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

William Cowper