Instead of being a time of unusual behavior, Christmas is perhaps the only time in the year when people can obey their natural impulses and express their true sentiments without feeling self-conscious and, perhaps, foolish. Christmas, in short, is about the only chance a man has to be himself.
Francis C. Farley
The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
Tom Clancy
Correct morals arise from knowing what man is - not what do-gooders and
well-meaning old Aunt Nellies would like him to be.
Robert A Heinlein - Starship Troopers
God, give me grace to accept with serenity the things I cannot change,
courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference.
Reinhold Niebuhr