“The best gifts come from the heart, not the store.”

“Maybe Christmas, the Grinch thought, doesn't come from a store.”

“Hearts are not to be had as a gift, hearts are to be earned.”

“Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in boxes from stores that went out of business twenty years ago.”

“What comes from the heart goes to the heart”

“I write of a coming shift from a profit-taking economy to a gift economy, from an economy of ‘how can I take the most?’ to ‘how can I best give of my gifts?’ This future, in which the anxiety of "making a living" no longer drives us, will arise out of the transformation in the human sense of self that is gathering today. But it is not only a future. We can live it now.”

“If you wish that God should dwell in your heart, purify your heart from all save Him for the king will not enter a house filled with stores and furniture. He will only enter a heart which is empty of all save Himself.”

“Great thoughts come from the heart.”

“… the best gift we can give each other is the gift of time -- those precious, special, eternal moments.”

“Singing cannot much avail, if from within the heart comes not the song; nor can the song come from the heart, unless there be there noble love, heartfelt.”