This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone.

—Taylor Caldwell

Remember, if Christmas isn’t found in your heart, you won’t find it under a tree.

—Charlotte Carpenter

Christmas, in its final essence, is for grown people who have forgotten what children know. Christmas is for whoever is old enough to have denied the unquenchable spirit of man.

—Margaret Cousins

Do give books — religious or otherwise — for Christmas. They’re never fattening, seldom sinful, and permanently personal.              —Lenore Hershey

Were I a philosopher, I should write a philosophy of toys, showing that nothing else in life need to be taken seriously, and that Christmas Day in the company of children is one of the few occasions on which men become entirely alive.

—Robert Lynd

Christmas gift suggestions: To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, your heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. To every child, a good example. To yourself, respect.         —Oren Arnold

One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas day. Don’t clean it up too quickly.                             —Andy Rooney

As long as we know in our hearts what Christmas ought to be, Christmas is.

—Eric Sevareid

I sometimes think we expect too much of Christmas Day. We try to crowd into it the long arrears of kindliness and humanity of the whole year. As for me, I like to take my Christmas a little at a time, all through the year. And thus I drift along into the holidays — let them overtake me unexpectedly — waking up some fine morning and suddenly saying to myself: “Why this is Christmas Day!”

—Ray Stannard Baker