The creative instincts, the love force must be nourished with every beat of our hearts until they overbalance the destructive instincts.

My general attitude toward life when I first get up is of deep suspicion, verging on hatred. ... I am simply basted together until after breakfast.

Christmas is a kindling of new fires.

Christmas is a bridge. We need bridges as the river of time flows past. Today's Christmas should mean creating happy hours for tomorrow and reliving those of yesterday.

Whoever decided that comic valentines were a good idea should have been sent away to think it over.

A house with no fireplace is a house without a heart.

Americans tend to believe they can do anything with or without any training or experience.