Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas." -- Calvin Coolidge

"There is no ideal Christmas; only the one Christmas you decide to make as a reflection of your values, desires, affections, traditions." -- Bill McKibben

"The rooms were very still while the pages were softly turned and the winter sunshine crept in to touch the bright heads and serious faces with a Christmas greeting." -- Louisa May Alcott

"The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other." -- Burton Hillis

"Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful." -- Norman Vincent Peale

"Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas." -- Peg Bracken

"From Home to home, and heart to heart, from one place to another. The warmth and joy of Christmas, brings us closer to each other." -- Emily Matthews

"Something about an old-fashioned Christmas is hard to forget." -- Hugh Downs

"Peace on earth will come to stay, when we live Christmas every day." -- Helen Steiner Rice

"At Christmas play and make good cheer, For Christmas comes but once a year." -- Thomas Tusser

"The joy of brightening other lives, bearing each others' burdens, easing other's loads and supplanting empty hearts and lives with generous gifts becomes for us the magic of Christmas." -- W. C. Jones

"Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love." -- Hamilton Wright Mabi

"The only blind person at Christmastime is he who has not Christmas in his heart." -- Helen Kelle

"This, the spirit of Christmas, that forever and ever endures. May it leave its richest blessing in the hearts of you and yours." -- Dale Evans Rogers

"For centuries men have kept an appointment with Christmas. Christmas means fellowship, feasting, giving and receiving, a time of good cheer, home." -- Mary Ellen Chase

"Christmas is most truly Christmas when we celebrate it by giving the light of love to those who need it most." -- Dale Evans Rogers

"Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful." -- Norman Vincent Peale

"The message of Christmas is that the visible material world is bound to the invisible spiritual world." -- Dale Evans Rogers

"One of the nice things about Christmas is that you can make people forget the past with a present." -- Thomas Tusser

"Xmas is the season of joy, of holiday greetings exchanged, of gift-giving,and of families united." -- Norman Vincent Peale

"Christmas is the day that holds all time together." -- Alexander Smith