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In America, Christmas is the king of all holidays. To be left out of Christmas is the ultimate minority experience.
Middle age is when you're faced with two temptations and you choose the one that will get you home by nine o'clock.
Creativity is neither the product of neurosis nor simple talent, but an intense courageous encounter with the Gods.
Making a Christmas album is looked upon by some people as the thing you do when you are heading towards retirement.
The appreciation of life does not require wealth or plenty. It requires only gratitude for the beauty of the world.
We should develop a deep appreciation for all the we have, and not waste it, otherwise we'll die with deep regrets.
Love sets your heart free. Be not afraid: dig deep, Take a deep breath And reach for the sky In your lover's heart.
I so much appreciate it when anybody tries to make something and tries to be an artist - I'm happy to see the work.
Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
The cave art of Madison Avenue has been by far the most innovative and educative art form of the twentieth century.
I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.
Sometimes you have to experience the bad, so that you can learn to appreciate the good things that enter your life.
Once you become self-conscious, there is no end to it; once you start to doubt, there is no room for anything else.
What a snapshot is to your life, your life is to eternity, so wouldn't it be nice if eternity captured you smiling?
All the care I would take, all the love that we made.. Now you trying to find somebody to replace what I gave to ya
Courage is... the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.
One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.
Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.
You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.
Washington's birthday is as close to a secular Christmas as any Christian country dare come this side of blasphemy.
When a woman grabs my braids and says "How cute!" I crab her breast and say "How cute!" She never touches me again!
I grew up in Scotland in the 1970s. There was not much money. The most popular Christmas toy was probably a potato.
I bought my kid an educational toy to help him make it through life. No matter how you put it together, it's wrong.
Let freedom ring, let the white dove sing, let the weak be strong, let the right be wrong... it's Independence Day.
At 50, you need to laugh about your age. If you don't, everybody else will do it for you. Happy birthday, old chum!
The church is like manure. Pile it up, and it stinks up the neighborhood. Spread it out, and it enriches the world.
If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.
Blessed is the match consumed in kindling flame Blessed is the flame that burns in the secret fastness of the heart
Arts and sciences are not cast in a mould, but are found and perfected by degrees, by often handling and polishing.
John Candy knew he was going to die. He told me on his 40th birthday. He said, well, Maureen, I'm on borrowed time.
Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.
From the self-confidence with which he spoke no one could tell whether what he said was very clever or very stupid.
You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free. Everything that is contradictory creates life
Sometimes you just have to be patient and brave and strong. If you don't know how, just make it up as you go along.
I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.
[Their love] had burned itself out, like a forgotten candle in an empty room, leaving behind a ravenous discontent.
Service... Giving what you don't have to give. Giving when you don't need to give. Giving because you want to give.
The measure of a man's culture is the measure of his appreciation. We are ourselves what we appreciate and no more.
Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.
He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.
Ah, if everyone was as sensitive as you! There's no girl who hasn't gone through that. And it's all so unimportant!
You look so blindingly cute right now, I feel like I need to make a pinhole in a piece of paper just to look at you.
We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race.
The art of humility begins with a recognition of our dependence on others and an appreciation of God's gift of life.
A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.
Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.
You cannot change how someone thinks, but you can give them a tool to use which will lead them to think differently.
So, if you feel a smile begin, don't leave it undetected, let's start an epidemic quick, and get the world infected!
Enlightenment is simply sanity~ the sanity in which I see my real situation in the living fabric of all that exists.
You can't learn something about all women. Sometimes I feel that the older I get, the less of a grip I've got on it.