Christmas Day is the festival of optimism.

Thus I came up out of Egypt and stood before Sinai, and a power divine touched my spirit and gave it sight, so that I beheld many wonders. And from the sacred mountain I heard a voice which said, ‘Knowledge is love and light and vision.

Joy is a spiritual element that gives vicissitudes unity and significance.

Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained.

When one door of hapiness closes, another opens.

The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

I could never stay long enough on the shore; the tang of the untainted, fresh, and free sea air was like a cool, quieting thought.