Jeb Bush, I appreciate you. You a leader. You a Bush.

For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.

No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone.

I love life because what more is there?

Be a player; don’t play yourself. And don’t play basketball. That’s not your sport, Jeb Bush.

We’ve got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can’t just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it’s going to get on by itself. You’ve got to keep watering it. You’ve got to really look after it and nurture it.

What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy’s tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes.

To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.

I was always very curious as a young man about why older writers who I met seemed so indifferent to what was going on, whereas I, in my 20s, was reading everything. Everything seemed important. But they were only interested in the writers they admired when they were young, and I didn’t understand it then, but now, now I understand it.

I love my daddy. My daddy’s everything. I hope I can find a man that will treat me as good as my dad.

The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.

Many people are alive but don’t touch the miracle of being alive.

As I’ve said, there were patriots who supported this war, and patriots who opposed it. And all of us are united in appreciation for our servicemen and women, and our hopes for Iraqis‘ future.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

I don’t want flowers or candy or anything like that. I just want somebody to say, ‚Wow, you’ve done a great job.‘

There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.

I owe the best of myself to geology, but everything it has taught me tends to turn me away from dead things.

Being acknowledged for your work is always a great accomplishment, whether it’s people in my city, kids in the street, all the way up to the Grammys.

Deficiency motivation doesn’t work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.

With mindfulness, you can establish yourself in the present in order to touch the wonders of life that are available in that moment.

Fame will go by and, so long, I’ve had you, fame. If it goes by, I’ve always known it was fickle. So at least it’s something I experience, but that’s not where I live.

My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater than he would ever claim.

Never take anything for granted.

At the end of the day, your fans are the people who support you in and out. And their opinions matter.

When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility.

Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.

I admire people who dare to take the language, English, and understand it and understand the melody.

Pick the day. Enjoy it – to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come… The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present – and I don’t want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future.

Even with all of the things that are so awful, if you walk into your yard and stay there looking at almost anything for five minutes, you will be stunned by how marvelous life is and how incredibly lucky we are to have it.

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks, but for the ledger of our daily work.

Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.

It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it.

The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.

Everybody loves you when you’re six foot in the ground.

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

I am not the first Buddha who came upon Earth, nor shall I be the last. In due time, another Buddha will arise in the world – a Holy One, a supremely enlightened One, endowed with wisdom in conduct, auspicious, knowing the universe, an incomparable leader of men, a master of angels and mortals.

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.

It definitely has learning a lesson about the way you’re living your life. I wouldn’t compare our movie to that, but it has a structure where it’s about a man who doesn’t appreciate all that he has and finds out at the end that life has been great and he has to enjoy that.

Here in America, we don’t let our differences tear us apart. Not here. Because we know that our greatness comes from when we appreciate each other’s strengths, when we learn from each other, when we lean on each other, because in this country, it’s never been each person for themselves. No, we’re all in this together. We always have been.

If you truly get in touch with a piece of carrot, you get in touch with the soil, the rain, the sunshine. You get in touch with Mother Earth and eating in such a way, you feel in touch with true life, your roots, and that is meditation. If we chew every morsel of our food in that way we become grateful and when you are grateful, you are happy.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.

I always joke that my kids‘ favorite holiday is Father’s Day. They love the way I celebrate the occasion by writing each of them a thank-you letter and a generous check. It’s my way of letting them know how much I appreciate the great pleasure and privilege of being their dad.

My main focus is always to do well on the field for the Indian cricket team. When people say good things about me off the field, I am more than happy to accept them.

I love to sit and eat quietly and enjoy each bite, aware of the presence of my community, aware of all the hard and loving work that has gone into my food.

When someone bestows something on you, no matter how true it is, when someone says, ‚Sexiest Man Alive,‘ I’m honestly going, ‚Thank you. Right on.‘ For me, it’s never canceled out anything, it’s never made me go, ‚Does this make me less talented of an actor?‘

We should not look down on our first ancestors.

It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.

What good are fans? You can’t eat applause for breakfast. You can’t sleep with it.

After one has been in prison, it is the small things that one appreciates: being able to take a walk whenever one wants, going into a shop and buying a newspaper, speaking or choosing to remain silent. The simple act of being able to control one’s person.

It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.

I believe that my parents did wonderful things for us.

It feels good to have your work respected again.

I’m screamingly funny, you know, I really am in the books. And that helps because I’m funnier than a lot of people, I think, and that’s appreciated by young people.

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

Friends applaud, the comedy is over.

If I heard someone else singing like me, I would buy it in a heartbeat.