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

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

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

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

Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.

I try to live what I teach. A lot of things come against us in life, but we should try to find something to be grateful for, and see each day as a gift.

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

It is odd that we have so little relationship with nature, with the insects and the leaping frog and the owl that hoots among the hills calling for its mate. We never seem to have a feeling for all living things on the earth.

The thing that we are trying to do at facebook, is just help people connect and communicate more efficiently.

Family and friendships are two of the greatest facilitators of happiness.

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

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

I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose.

The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

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

OVOXO will always be there.

Good entrepreneurs are community builders, actively involved with their communities and dedicated to the community’s well being. If you’re dedicated to your community, it will be dedicated to you.

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

If you desire many things, many things will seem few.

Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

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?

‚Suffering should not make us bitter people,‘ my mother once said, ‚it should make us better comforters.‘ Young people need to hear this from those who have walked before them, because someday they’ll be walking those same steps, but there may not be anyone following behind.

Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.

I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

Our human compassion binds us the one to the other – not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.

I know I do not exaggerate, unconsciously and unintentionally, the scantiness of my resources and the difficulty of my life… I know that, but for the mercy of God, I might easily have been, for any care that was taken of me, a little robber or a vagabond.

I feel that my fans have cultivated my talent and they continue to nurture me.

We should not look down on our first ancestors.

When people need love and understanding and support the most is when they deserve it the least.

I love great journalism. I appreciate it. I love a good, you know, I love good news stories. I love great books. I love great articles. I appreciate them so much, and they’ve been part of my education as a woman.

The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.

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

Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.

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.

To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.

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.

Many people, especially young people, would like to be more independent and on their own. But it is very difficult and they suffer from feelings of isolation. I think that is one reason why young readers support my work.

Bounty always receives part of its value from the manner in which it is bestowed.

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.

The best way to know God is to love many things.

Listen, I think that people want a president who is going to be interested in the things that keep them up at night, the things that are weighing on them, the things that are debilitating and can be addressed.

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.

If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.

Can people who hunger so desperately for what other people have ever have enough?

Oh, hour of forgiven sin, moment of perfect pardon, our soul shall never forget you while, within you, life and being find immortality!

I just genuinely feel that that’s what you do when you’re an artist: You stick up for the people around you.

When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, ‚Oh yes – I already have everything that I really need.‘

The Occupy movement did create spontaneously communities that taught people something: you can be in a supportive community of mutual aid and cooperation and develop your own health system and library and have open space for democratic discussion and participation. Communities like that are really important.

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.

The answer to the problem of inequality is for the people who are fortunate enough to either have been gifted or deserved more to do everything they can to make the communities around them as strong as they possibly can.

I hate to see anybody sink. I hate to see anybody lose their dream, lose their home, something like that.

You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.

Our teachers deserve better feedback.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.

If you want to make someone feel emotion, you have to make them let go. Listening to something is an act of surrender.

To hold a man down, you have to stay down with him.

Information helps you to see that you’re not alone. That there’s somebody in Mississippi and somebody in Tokyo who all have wept, who’ve all longed and lost, who’ve all been happy. So the library helps you to see, not only that you are not alone, but that you’re not really any different from everyone else.

To help a friend in need is easy, but to give him your time is not always opportune.