Play, Patriotic grace, Kindness...

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.
~ Plato, Greek philosopher

What we need most right now, at this moment, is a kind of patriotic grace - a grace that takes the long view, apprehends the moment we're in, comes up with ways of dealing with it, and eschews the politically cheap and manipulative. That admits affection and respect. That encourages them. That acknowledges that the small things that divide us are not worthy of the moment; that agrees that the things that can be done to ease the stresses we feel as a nation should be encouraged, while those that encourage our cohesion as a nation should be supported.
~ Peggy Noonan (Patriotic Grace: What It Is and Why We Need It Now)

If you can't be kind, at least have the decency to be vague.
~ Jerry Seinfeld

Some quotes for Christmas

There is no such thing as "fun for the whole family."
~ Jerry Seinfeld (1954 - )

The customer doesn't expect everything will go right all the time; the big test is what you do when things go wrong.
~ Sir Colin Marshall

If you knew what I know about the power of giving, you would not let a single meal pass without sharing it in some way.
~ Buddha (563 BC - 483 BC)

Mixed bag of thoughts

People demand freedom of speech to make up for freedom of thought, which they avoid.
~Soren Aabye Kierkegaard

A 2-year-old is kind of like having a blender, but you don't have a top for it.
~ Jerry Seinfeld

Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist on amassing information.
~ Kurt Vonnegut