I love Christmas, not just because of the presents but because of all the decorations and lights and the warmth of the season.

Dad bought me a toy drum one Christmas, and I eventually destroyed it. I wanted a real drum and he bought me a snare drum. Dad continued to buy me one drum after the other.

In fact, I was one of the few trusted people that Lucy allowed to play with their kids. I spent time at their summer home, rode horses at their ranch, and swam at their beach house. I even spent a Christmas with them at Palm Springs one year.

Those worship songs on the Christmas project will air on PBS television. That's highly unusual.

To understand this Christmas record, you have to understand our ministry.

In 1934, the American Jewish charities offered to find homes for 300 German refugee children. We were on the SS Washington, bound for New York, Christmas 1934.

Christmas... is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart.

No sane local official who has hung up an empty stocking over the municipal fireplace, is going to shoot Santa Claus just before a hard Christmas.

Christmas is the day that holds all time together.

I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.

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

I'm so depressed. Christmas is the worst of all. Holidays are terrible, worse than Sundays. I get melancholia.

Did you know that Christmas Day is absolutely the best day to fly? It is. No crowded airports and crowded planes. I always flew to Australia. That's what Christmas was for me - a plane journey to the next tournament.

I never really did Christmas before. Christmas Day? I mean - what's that? What's it all about? I was always flying on Christmas Day.

That's the true spirit of Christmas; people being helped by people other than me.