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.

When you focus on how wonderful God is and all the great things He’s done… is doing… and even will do in your life, your natural response will be praise, adoration and awe. Don’t let yourself ever get used to it… stay amazed!

Only the ideas that we really live have any value.

I’m thankful for the incredible advances in medicine that have taken place during my lifetime. I almost certainly wouldn’t still be here if it weren’t for them.

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.

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

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.‘

Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you’re going to live your life.

When one’s expectations are reduced to zero, one really appreciates everything one does have.

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

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

It is only by not paying one’s bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.

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.

Those places I don’t understand, just doing bad food. It takes some doing. Making good pasta is so much easier than making bad stuff. It actually takes quite an effort to make poor linguine pomodora.

The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.

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.

I work very hard, but when God opens that door for you – when life opens that door for you, I should say – I think it’s important to be giving, to return the love back.

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

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.

I think as long as I do a good job and put in all my effort to proving that I’m worth it, then everything should be fine.

I hope I didn’t bore you too much with my life story.

I didn’t die young. So I am very lucky. There are other artists and people that didn’t survive certain things… people can imagine that I did the most dangerous, and I did the worst… for many reasons, I shouldn’t be here.

I wake up some mornings and sit and have my coffee and look out at my beautiful garden, and I go, ‚Remember how good this is. Because you can lose it.‘

It’s flattering to people who stop you and say that you’ve helped them and all. But, again, you know, you’ve got to stay humble because as quick as you came up, you can come down.

Every day is a gift from God, no matter how old we are.

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.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

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

There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.

What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy’s tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes.

The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.

I didn’t want to be a writer, but I became one. And now I have many readers, in many countries. I think that’s a miracle. So I think I have to be humble regarding this ability. I’m proud of it and I enjoy it, and it is strange to say it this way, but I respect it.

I believe God, Jesus, died that we not just go to Heaven but that we excel in this life. I never think you make money your goal… God wants you to excel. Just keep Him in first place, and God will open up doors you never dreamed of.

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

I’m not much of a math and science guy. I spent most of my time in school daydreaming and managed to turn it into a living.

How lucky Adam was. He knew when he said a good thing, nobody had said it before.

Every day is a gift from God. Learn to focus on the Giver and enjoy the gift!

Satan wants us to constantly focus on everything that is wrong with us and look at how far we still have to go. But God desires for us to rejoice in how far we have already come.

It is not living that matters, but living rightly.

I’ve always been very one-sided about science, and when I was younger, I concentrated almost all my effort on it.

I can barely walk, but it’s a privilege to be able to move at all.

There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.

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.

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

People who can’t be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it.

Talent and effort, combined with our various backgrounds and life experiences, has always been the lifeblood of our singular American genius.

Let a man get up and say, Behold, this is the truth, and instantly I perceive a sandy cat filching a piece of fish in the background. Look, you have forgotten the cat, I say.

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

He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.

In this constant battle which we call living, we try to set a code of conduct according to the society in which we are brought up, whether it be a Communist society or a so-called free society; we accept a standard of behaviour as part of our tradition as Hindus or Muslims or Christians or whatever we happen to be.

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

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.

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!

Life doesn’t require that we be the best, only that we try our best.

Being elected to Congress, though I am very grateful to our friends for having done it, has not pleased me as much as I expected.

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.

Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future. If we can acknowledge our fear, we can realize that right now we are okay. Right now, today, we are still alive, and our bodies are working marvelously. Our eyes can still see the beautiful sky. Our ears can still hear the voices of our loved ones.

An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.

Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.