When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?

I want to thank my Eritrean fans for feeling connected to me and for supporting me. I feel extremely grateful.

As a boy, because I was born and raised in Ohio, about 60 miles north of Dayton, the legends of the Wrights have been in my memories as long as I can remember.

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

You’ve got to invest in the world, you’ve got to read, you’ve got to go to art galleries, you’ve got to find out the names of plants. You’ve got to start to love the world and know about the whole genius of the human race. We’re amazing people.

I do not like broccoli. And I haven’t liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I’m President of the United States and I’m not going to eat any more broccoli.

The greatest gift is the ability to forget – to forget the bad things and focus on the good.

I remember as a little girl going down to the beet fields in the Dakotas and in Nebraska and Wyoming as migrant workers when I was very, very small, like, I was, like, 5 years old, I believe. And I remember going out there, you know, traveling to these states and living in these little tarpaper shacks that they had in Wyoming.

I didn’t die young. So I am very lucky. There are other artists and people that didn’t survive certain things… people can imagine that I did the most dangerous, and I did the worst… for many reasons, I shouldn’t be here.

Continuous eloquence wearies. Grandeur must be abandoned to be appreciated. Continuity in everything is unpleasant. Cold is agreeable, that we may get warm.

You might not have the things you want, but if you check carefully, you got all you need.

I’m just glad I play for Coach Belichick.

These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well. I did not think of them much at the time, but there came a day in my life when the ring was fished up out of the well, good as new.

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

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

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

I was baptized by my father when I was 4 years old.

Tell your wife often how terrific she looks.

It’s flattering to people who stop you and say that you’ve helped them and all. But, again, you know, you’ve got to stay humble because as quick as you came up, you can come down.

I am deeply grateful to the citizens of Sarajevo and the Sarajevo Canton assembly for bestowing upon me this incredible honor of citizenship. I am so proud to now be a part of such an extraordinary part of the world and fellow citizen to the people I deeply love and admire.

My life turned out to be beyond my greatest dreams.

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.

Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.

I remember how my mother would bring us to chapel on Sundays… and my father used to wait outside. One of the things that I picked up from my father and my mother was the sense that religion often gets in the way of God. For me, at least, it got in the way.

Life is abundant, and life is beautiful. And it’s a good place that we’re all in, you know, on this earth, if we take care of it.

I know that I came into the world with what I call ‚big dharma‘ – with a blueprint to teach self-reliance and a positive loving approach to large numbers of people all over the globe. I am ever so grateful for the circumstances of my life that allowed me to be pretty much left alone and to develop as I was so intended in this incarnation.

We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.

I did not, thank the Lord, have to have a hysterectomy.

I resent the implication that I’m less of a musician and a worse person for not appreciating certain works.

I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.

Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content.

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

I was born in London 1947, after the war. A real wartime baby. I went to school in Brixton, and then I moved up to Yorkshire, which is in the north of England. I lived on the farms up there.

I was the only kid who anybody I knew has ever seen actually walk into a lamppost with his eyes wide open. Everybody assumed that there must be something going on inside, because there sure as hell wasn’t anything going on the outside!

If I’m a star, then the people made me a star.

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

I was a Chicago Bulls, Michael Jordan fan growing up.

I stayed focused, and I never surrendered, and now I’ve been blessed. now I take care of my mother, my father, and my entire whole family.

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

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

If we chew every morsel of our food, in that way we become grateful, and when you are grateful, you are happy.

The last thing you want is to not be recognized for all of the hard work you put in.

I’ve always appreciated a turn of phrase.

I pay a lot of tax, and I feel, one of the reasons I stay and pay why I’m not based in Monaco… I think my country helped me.

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!

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

Have you not noticed that love is silence? It may be while holding the hand of another, or looking lovingly at a child, or taking in the beauty of an evening. Love has no past or future, and so it is with this extraordinary state of silence.

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.

It is a very mixed blessing to be brought back from the dead.

It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.

There are very few people who really appreciate my shows. People come to the show and they pay and they enjoy it, but I don’t really think most people really understand what they’ve seen.

I used to draw a lot. If my mother would ask me to do something else, I’d have a hairy conniption. I’d just go crazy.

God didn’t make me to make movies, flex muscles, buy gold. What you love the most becomes your God… If I never make another dollar, my life is complete.

I may not be where I want to be, but thank God I am not where I used to be.

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

All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.

God has given us two hands – one to receive with and the other to give with. We are not cisterns made for hoarding; we are channels made for sharing.

I know when I grew up, it was, if it was daylight outside, get outside. Well, now, with the technological age of computers and everything, everyone’s inside virtually going everywhere they want to go, virtually having relationships, virtually traveling across the neighborhood, virtually going to that island.

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

I would like to do a duet with Taylor Hanson, because I have loved Hanson since I was 8.

Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.