As you know, I’m an immigrant. I came over here as an immigrant, and what gave me the opportunities, what made me to be here today, is the open arms of Americans. I have been received. I have been adopted by America.

In truth, I did enjoy the benefits of a Harvard connection.

Every day, the people I meet inspire me… every day, they make me proud… every day they remind me how blessed we are to live in the greatest nation on earth.

We have a tendency to condemn people who are different from us, to define their sins as paramount and our own sinfulness as being insignificant.

Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.

I actually feel like women in my position, when we have all at our disposal to help us, shouldn’t complain when we consider all of the people who are really struggling and don’t have the means or support. Many people are single, raising children. That’s hard.

We all want to win more, but it’s all about being blessed and embracing your blessings. We have life.

Life is precious.

Things won’t get better dwelling on the past. Accept what has happened. Then move forward.

There are millions of Americans outside Washington who are tired of stale political arguments and are moving this country forward. They believe, and I believe, that here in America, our success should depend not on accident of birth, but the strength of our work ethic and the scope of our dreams.

It’s absolutely normal that different human beings want to go different ways.

Indeed, it is as important to learn how to receive a blessing as it is to be willing to give one.

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

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many – not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

I am not afraid of death, I just don’t want to be there when it happens.

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.

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

My body is like breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I don’t think about it, I just have it.

You may think it was a very little thing, and in these days it seems to me like a trifle, but it was a most important incident in my life. I could scarcely credit that I, the poor boy, had earned a dollar in less than a day; that by honest work, I had earned a dollar. I was a more hopeful and thoughtful boy from that time.

I think that is a better thing than thanksgiving: thanks-living. How is this to be done? By a general cheerfulness of manner, by an obedience to the command of Him by whose mercy we live, by a perpetual, constant delighting of ourselves in the Lord, and by a submission of our desires to His will.

Reality has a way of intruding. Reality eventually intrudes on everything.

I believe that my parents did wonderful things for us.

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

The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the vesture of his adopted land.

Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.

When people are connected, we can just do some great things. They have the opportunity to get access to jobs, education, health, communications. We have the opportunity to bring the people we care about closer to us. It really makes a big difference.

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

Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.

However great may be the work for which we are responsible, we will always do well if we pause to spend time in sacred praise.

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

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.

If proud Americans can be who they are and boldly stand at the altar with who they love then surely, surely we can give everyone in this country a fair chance at that great American Dream.

Because, you know, resilience – if you think of it in terms of the Gold Rush, then you’d be pretty depressed right now because the last nugget of gold would be gone. But the good thing is, with innovation, there isn’t a last nugget. Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities.

Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.

Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them.

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.

Americans… still believe in an America where anything’s possible – they just don’t think their leaders do.

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 mother and my father have been married 50 years, and he’s just started to understand that something’s wrong with the system. He accepted the whole thing, you see. Yet this industrious kind of engagement didn’t bring him the success, according to American terms, that he wanted. I was probably affected by this very much. In fact, I know I was.

When I was a child I asked my mother what homosexuality was about and she said – and this was 100 years ago in Germany and she was very open-minded – ‚It’s like hair color. It’s nothing. Some people are blond and some people have dark hair. It’s not a subject.‘ This was a very healthy attitude.

I wouldn’t be here today if it were not for the NHS. I have received a large amount of high-quality treatment without which I would not have survived.

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

I think the bottom of the totem pole is African-American women, or women of colour. I think they get the least opportunities in Hollywood.

I’ve reached the point where I hardly care whether I live or die. The world will keep on turning without me, and I can’t do anything to change events anyway.

Never take anything for granted.

Many people are alive but don’t touch the miracle of being alive.

We love things we love what they are.

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!

Racial prejudice, anti-Semitism, or hatred of anyone with different beliefs has no place in the human mind or heart.

I’m actually starting to like more and more people who have convictions that are unpopular.

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

The Internet offers opportunities that are more unique than ever before. With TV, I know I’m making 22 minutes; I know there’s a commercial in the middle. With the Internet, no one knows anything. No rules.

Most of the time, I’m not even working; I’m just helping people, because I feel that I am too lucky.

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.

The Web and new technology offer more opportunities to reach a world market at a lower price. Today, a person can start a business at home and reach the world market.

Where lipstick is concerned, the important thing is not color, but to accept God’s final word on where your lips end.

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.

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

I know people said I wasn’t selling out in America, but that was entirely untrue. We sold out all over the world, and every night I looked out into the fans and those front rows that you’re talking about, the tears, the honesty, the inability to not be completely overjoyed because they felt accepted.

As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.