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

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

When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.

The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.

The arts have only ever interested a small minority of people, which acted as a kind of nursery to support artists.

I’d have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.

Few of us can stand prosperity. Another man’s, I mean.

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, ‚I used everything you gave me‘.

I’ve always believed that success for anyone is all about drive, dedication, and desire, but for me, it’s also been about confidence and faith.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

I’m grateful for the evangelical resurgence we’ve seen across the world in the last half-century or so. It truly has been God’s doing.

When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect toward others.

Actors know, with me they aren’t going to be allowed to rehearse a scene for a couple of hours and then get away with doing 25 takes before we get it right. So they come with their full bag of tricks.

However my parents – both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension.

I hear my friends and my mom tell me I’m special, but honestly, I still don’t get it.

Sisters are brittle things. God was penurious with me, which makes me shrewd with Him. One is a dainty sum! One bird, one cage, one flight; one song in those far woods, as yet suspected by faith only!

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

I like working. That’s when I’m feeling my best. And the people around me know that. My wife knows that.

If you give, you will be blessed.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

I was at a New Year’s Eve party, and someone asked me how was my year, and I said, ‚I honestly think 2011 was the best year of my entire life,‘ and I actually meant it.

All honor’s wounds are self-inflicted.

Why did I become Jackie Chan? Mostly because I work very hard. When people were sleeping, I was still training.

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

They might not need me; but they might. I’ll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity.

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.

Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you – gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.

The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it – and sometimes three.

When the party gives me a responsibility, I must do it with complete dedication. God has given me the ability, which I utilise to its optimum.

The sergeant is the Army.

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it’s much more serious than that.

I don’t like to beat people down. They need to be lifted up.

As we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously.

How sweet it is to learn the Savior’s love when nobody else loves us! When friends flee, what a blessed thing it is to see that the Savior does not forsake us but still keeps us and holds us fast and clings to us and will not let us go!

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

I had very good support from Democrats and Republicans all throughout my administration. I had a very high batting average. We added more jobs per year in my four years than any other president since the Second World War.

God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with.

He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.

I have done for my country, and for all mankind, all that I could do, and I now resign my soul, without fear, to my God – my daughter to my country.

The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!

Once you appreciate one of your blessings, one of your senses, your sense of hearing, then you begin to respect the sense of seeing and touching and tasting, you learn to respect all the senses.

So while an incredible amount of progress has been made, on this fifth anniversary, I wanted to come here and tell the people of this city directly: My administration is going to stand with you – and fight alongside you – until the job is done. Until New Orleans is all the way back, all the way.

As a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, I know that the men and women of our intelligence community put their lives on the line every day, and they do very dangerous work to keep our country safe.

If my films don’t show a profit, I know I’m doing something right.

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?‘

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.

I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.

Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.

My mom cleaned toilets for a long time, and she’d seen a lot of terrible things, but she was still the strength of our family. And there are women like that all across the country – all around the world – who show that type of fortitude.

He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.

We give speeches and pin ribbons onto uniforms, etch names into walls. And all that is fine, but too often, all those tributes, all those words aren’t always backed up by action. And that felt like such a stark contrast to me, because, as we all know, our military is all about action.

God can cause opportunity to find you. He has unexpected blessings where you suddenly meet the right person, or suddenly your health improves, or suddenly you’re able to pay off your house. That’s God shifting things in your favor.

In order to become prosperous, a person must initially work very hard, so he or she has to sacrifice a lot of leisure time.

When we are well, we all have good advice for those who are ill.

Everyone has the potential to become an encourager. You don’t have to be rich. You don’t have to be a genius. You don’t have to have it all together. All you have to do is care about people and initiate.

Once I get on a puzzle, I can’t get off.

If people wonder, yes, Hillary Clinton is my friend. She has been a friend to me and Barack and Malia and Sasha, and Bill and Chelsea have been embracing and supportive from the very day my husband took the oath of office.

I wouldn’t say that anyone in fashion is on my side. I don’t think there’s anyone on my side.

If you’re not careful to think and speak words of faith, worry will creep in, and it will not only steal your peace and joy, it will steal your ‚today.‘ The present is the greatest gift God ever gives us. So hold on to the peace that’s yours in Christ. Don’t let it go.