We don’t thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient.

He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God’s providence to lead him aright.

I never admire another’s fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.

It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.

I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.

He that rises late must trot all day.

I don’t have much positive to say about motor neurone disease. But it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I could still do.

Each day provides its own gifts.

Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.

Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is.

I don’t have much positive to say about motor neuron disease, but it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I still could do. I’m happier now than before I developed the condition.

Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.

I would never exchange my life with anybody else’s.

A good thing to remember is somebody’s got it a lot worse than we do.

When you go to an oasis, you go there to supply yourself with the vital things you are missing, things that you need.

I look at where I’m at today and realize that most of my success is owed to the mentors that was in my life.

To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform.

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

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

The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.

Right now I’m just delighted to be alive and to have had a nice long bath.

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

I was a chemistry major, but I’m always winding up as a teacher in English departments, so I’ve brought scientific thinking to literature. There’s been very little gratitude for this.

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

I think the first duty of society is justice.

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

We love things we love what they are.

Did you know there’s a difference between being busy and being fruitful? Did you ever stop to think that just being busy – running around in circles all day but not accomplishing anything – is the same as wasting your time? It’s frustrating to expend so much energy and time and not have any fruit from your effort!

Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.

It’s pretty hard to be efficient without being obnoxious.

It is another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

Sometimes we look back and 10 years from now we think, ‚Boy, those were great old days.‘ Well, you know, we’re living in the good old days.

My mom was a terrible parent of young children. And thank God – I thank God every time I think of it – I was sent to my paternal grandmother. Ah, but my mother was a great parent of a young adult.

We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.

God wants to bless us where we are.

I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.

Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.

Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.

Working with our military community has been the biggest honor of my life.

Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

For me, being raised in a free America made all the difference.

Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.

I am just happy to be part of the Nike family.

Time is bunk.

The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.

I don’t want to be too critical of what other people do, but when people go back to do the same thing that they did, I’m completely confused. I’m like, ‚Didn’t you make that movie already?‘ I’ve been very fortunate, and I’m well taken care of, so the least I can do is try to go forward.

All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.

I like to do things quickly because I’m easily bored.

Be thankful we’re not getting all the government we’re paying for.

I love being American, and I love family. I love having a family, and I feel so blessed, and I feel like God gave me exactly what I wanted, so now I have to do the right thing in God’s eyes also. Just follow what God wants me to do.

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

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

My greatest blessing has been the birth of my son. My next greatest blessing has been my ability to turn people into children of mine.

I’m bloody awful at multi-tasking.

Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it.