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 Christmas-time.

---Laura Ingalls Wilder

They err who thinks Santa Claus comes down through the chimney; he really enters through the heart.

----Mrs. Paul M. Ell

Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.

---Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man.

---Benjamin Franklin

Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go.

---Brooks Atkinson

Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

---Arnold Bennet

I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.'

---Kurt Vonnegut, ' A Man without Country'