“There is a part of me that will forever want to be walking under autumn leaves, carrying a briefcase containing the works of Shakespeare and Yeats and a portable chess set. I will pass an old tree under which once on a summer night I lay on the grass with a fragrant young woman, and we quoted E.E. Cummings back and forth.”
"Teaching prejudice to a child is itself a form of bullying. You've got to be taught to hate."
- Roger Ebert
Awareness
"To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts."
- Roger Ebert
Compassion
"Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you."
- Roger Ebert
Self-awareness
"Doing [market] research on the web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized nightly."
- Roger Ebert
Insight
"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