What will you put in the stocking
of the Baby Jesus?
screenwriter of The Bishop's Wife with Cary Grant, Loretta
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What will you put in the stocking
of the Baby Jesus?
screenwriter of The Bishop's Wife with Cary Grant, Loretta
Young, and David's Niven.

To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children...to leave the world read more

To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children...to leave the world a better place...to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality read more

Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear.

We'd all like a reputation for generosity, and we'd all like to buy it cheap.

We'd all like a reputation for generosity, and we'd all like to buy it cheap.

Curiosity . . . endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in cheerful read more

Curiosity . . . endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will.

The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.

The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.

We cannot do great things on this Earth, only small things with great love.

We cannot do great things on this Earth, only small things with great love.

What I gave, I have; what I spent, I had; what I kept, I lost.

What I gave, I have; what I spent, I had; what I kept, I lost.

Liberality consists less in giving a great deal than in gifts well-timed.

Liberality consists less in giving a great deal than in gifts well-timed.