"The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace."
- Carlos Santana
Compassion
"Music is the transporter. The carrier. It carries the inspiration, the message, the healing."
- Carlos Santana
Inspiration
"Just as Jesus created wine from water, we humans are capable of transmuting emotion into music."
- Carlos Santana
Creativity
"Your wrinkles either show that you're nasty, cranky and senile, or that you're always smiling."
- Carlos Santana
Self-confidence
"If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment."
- Carlos Santana
Healing
"Christmas is a time when you get homesick, even when you're home."
- Carol Nelson
Nature
"We count down the days just to experience it nearly exactly as we always have. It is so comfortable, familiar and perfectly nostalgic that, frankly, we have no desire to improve upon it at all."
- Joanna Gaines
Nature
"The smells of Christmas are the smells of childhood."
- Richard Paul Evans
Nature
"Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmastime."
- Laura Ingalls Wilder
Nature
"We count down the days just to experience it nearly exactly as we always have. It is so comfortable, familiar, and perfectly nostalgic that, frankly, we have no desire to improve upon it at all."
- Joanna Gaines
Nature