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

All our actions, as well as our thoughts and words, should praise Him who always blesses us.

We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.

The fame isn’t important to me. It’s a blessing to have. Having so many people that support me, that love me and listen to my music, is beautiful.

Breathing in, I am aware of my heart. Breathing out, I smile to my heart and know that my heart still functions normally. I feel grateful for my heart.

Nobody can ever make enough money for as many poor relatives as I’ve got. Somebody’s got a sick kid, or somebody needs an operation, somebody ain’t got this, somebody ain’t got that. Or to give the kids all a car when they graduate.

Each doctor makes a much, much more important job than I do, but at the end, nobody talks about him. We all know about it, but we don’t really think about it.

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.

I like gifts. I like to give them and I like to get them.

Giving is true having.

Over the years, all my coaches and my teammates have contributed a lot to shape my career. I can never forget their contribution and help.

The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.

If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one.

Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.

The funny thing is people won’t let me pay for things. I’ll be in a restaurant and the manager will say, ‚Oh no, it’s on the house.‘

I agree with Balzac and 19th-century writers, black and white, who say, ‚I write for money.‘ Yes, I think everybody should be paid handsomely; I insist on it, and I pay people who work for me, or with me, handsomely.

Zappa was very technical and impressed by things that were musically challenging – weird time signatures, strange keys, awkward chord sequences. Zappa was important to me as an example of everything I didn’t want to do. I’m very grateful to him, actually.

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

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

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.

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.

One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

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

It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.

I know that there are millions of Americans who are content with their health care coverage – they like their plan and, most importantly, they value their relationship with their doctor.

There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.

Things don’t have to change the world to be important.

The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Pride is an independent, me-oriented spirit. It makes people arrogant, rude and hard to get along with. When our heart is prideful, we don’t give God the credit and we mistreat people, looking down on them and thinking we deserve what we have.

So long as I’m Commander-in-Chief, we will sustain the strongest military the world has ever known. When you take off the uniform, we will serve you as well as you’ve served us – because no one who fights for this country should have to fight for a job, or a roof over their head, or the care that they need when they come home.

Life is precious.

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

To give alms is nothing unless you give thought also.

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.

And I try to give the best bang for the buck. I love performing more than anything else.

Nothing is worth more than this day.

In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

We should seek the greatest value of our action.

I make such big efforts to forget things and I can’t tell the story of my life because, thank God, I’m still living it.

We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value.

Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes.

If it wasn’t for baseball, I’d be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.

We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.

In a time of domestic crisis, men of goodwill and generosity should be able to unite regardless of party or politics.

A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.

Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.

If you have the opportunity to play this game of life you need to appreciate every moment. A lot of people don’t appreciate the moment until it’s passed.

I just owe almost everything to my father and it’s passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.

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

All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.

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.

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.

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

The people of Northern Ireland have sorted out my whole life.

Let not a libation of tears be the only offering at the shrine of Jesus; let us also rejoice with joy unspeakable. If we have need to lament our sin, how much more to rejoice at our pardon!

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.

My mother made me truly appreciate women.

I want to thank God, obviously for the health, for the talent He’s given me, for my family who supports me, for the things that basketball’s taught me on and off the court. For the people that I’ve been able to meet through the game of basketball.