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

To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.

Fill the earth with your songs of gratitude.

If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it.

It is wonderful to have someone praise you, to be desired.

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.

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

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.

It’s always wonderful to get to know women, with the mystery and the joy and the depth. If you can make a woman laugh, you’re seeing the most beautiful thing on God’s Earth.

Understand, when you eat meat, that something did die. You have an obligation to value it – not just the sirloin but also all those wonderful tough little bits.

For all the supporters of Tesla over the years, and it’s been several years now and there have been some very tough times, I’d just like to say thank you very much. I deeply appreciate the support, particularly through the darkest times.

The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.

The ideas associated with the problems of the development of science, as far as I can see by looking around me, are not of the kind that everyone appreciates.

There’s people that appreciate what I do; there’s people that criticize it.

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.

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

My mother was a dominant force in our family. And I always saw her as the leader. And that was great for me as a young woman, because I never saw that women had to be dominated by men.

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.

Always have something beautiful in sight, even if it’s just a daisy in a jelly glass.

We love things we love what they are.

I want to thank you for taking time out of your day to come and witness my hanging.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

If it’s good music, it’s good music.

Pay attention, don’t let life go by you. Fall in love with the back of your cereal box.

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 would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.

I’ve been a lot more into Facebook and Twitter and Instagram, which was a bit complicated for me to understand the language of each social media, because they all talk in different ways. It’s a nice way for me to tell people I appreciate them, which I forget to do sometimes.

I wake up some mornings and sit and have my coffee and look out at my beautiful garden, and I go, ‚Remember how good this is. Because you can lose it.‘

We can’t all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by.

Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.

It’s nice, I think, when people use your music for things you didn’t think of.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.

A man’s interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.

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

The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one’s appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.

Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.

I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness. Heaven knows that John the Baptist was not more eager to get all his fellow sinners into the Jordan than I to baptize all of mine in the beauty of God’s mountains.

I’ve always appreciated a turn of phrase.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God’s handwriting.

It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.

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.

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.

I walk every day, and I look at the mountains and the fields and the small city, and I say: ‚Oh my God, what a blessing.‘ Then you realise it’s important to put it in a context beyond this woman, this man, this city, this country, this universe.

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.

I do value the respect I get from my contemporaries, but to have Oasis cover my song, to have Puff Daddy cover a song, to have Goldie come along to my gigs – that’s where my ego is at. To have my fellow musicians like what I do, that’s very cool.

Remember that a gesture of friendship, no matter how small, is always appreciated.

When we recognise the virtues, the talent, the beauty of Mother Earth, something is born in us, some kind of connection, love is born.

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.

Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?

The way to know life is to love many things.

Naturally, there are times when every woman likes to be flattered… to feel she is the most important thing in someone’s world. Only a man can paint this picture.

Human beings love poetry. They don’t even know it sometimes… whether they’re the songs of Bono, or the songs of Justin Bieber… they’re listening to poetry.

Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.

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?‘

It feels good to have your work respected again.

Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one’s living at it.

People are always coming up to me and saying, ‚I heard your dad’s speech, and it’s really great.‘ And they’ll mention some place I didn’t even know my dad was going to.

Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future. If we can acknowledge our fear, we can realize that right now we are okay. Right now, today, we are still alive, and our bodies are working marvelously. Our eyes can still see the beautiful sky. Our ears can still hear the voices of our loved ones.