I understand that being able to appeal to the public and having an amazing sense of humour is not something that comes easy. It’s definitely a gift and for which I’m thankful.

I’ve got a great sense of humor.

What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?

Dear friends, we may well sing to our Beloved when it is near the time of our departure. It draws near, and as it approaches, we must not dread it, but rather thank God for it.

Never in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it. Is your child dead? It is a return. Is your wife dead? It is a return. Are you deprived of your estate? Is not this also a return?

If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.

I am a lucky man. I have had a dream and it has come true, and that is not a thing that happens often to men.

A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor.

My life turned out to be beyond my greatest dreams.

I saw 14 games in two and a half months at Churchill. It was what I really signed for. They were eyeing the championship and also playing the AFC Cup. So I am very thankful for Churchill, the coaching staff and the players.

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

I know that I came into the world with what I call ‚big dharma‘ – with a blueprint to teach self-reliance and a positive loving approach to large numbers of people all over the globe. I am ever so grateful for the circumstances of my life that allowed me to be pretty much left alone and to develop as I was so intended in this incarnation.

Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.

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

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.

I am grateful to be a woman. I must have done something great in another life.

You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.

At the end of the day, the TV show is the best job in the world. I get to go anywhere I want, eat and drink whatever I want. As long as I just babble at the camera, other people will pay for it. It’s a gift.

I really appreciate the moments that I was able to win rap album of the year or whatever.

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.

If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.

You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.

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.

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

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.

Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones – with ingratitude.

It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol for sale.

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

I always joke that my kids‘ favorite holiday is Father’s Day. They love the way I celebrate the occasion by writing each of them a thank-you letter and a generous check. It’s my way of letting them know how much I appreciate the great pleasure and privilege of being their dad.

For all the supporters of Tesla over the years, and it’s been several years now and there have been some very tough times, I’d just like to say thank you very much. I deeply appreciate the support, particularly through the darkest times.

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.

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‘.

Our greatness has always come from people who expect nothing and take nothing for granted – folks who work hard for what they have, then reach back and help others after them.

If you truly get in touch with a piece of carrot, you get in touch with the soil, the rain, the sunshine. You get in touch with Mother Earth and eating in such a way, you feel in touch with true life, your roots, and that is meditation. If we chew every morsel of our food in that way we become grateful and when you are grateful, you are happy.

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

I would never exchange my life with anybody else’s.

We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.

It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble.

I care very deeply about the people at Tesla. I feel like I have a great debt to the people of Tesla who are making the company successful.

I always thought money was something just to make me happy. But I’ve learned that I feel better being able to help my folks, ‚cause we never had nothing. So just to see them excited about my career is more of a blessing than me actually having it for myself.

If we chew every morsel of our food, in that way we become grateful, and when you are grateful, you are happy.

Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.

Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.

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

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.

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

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

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

A daily portion is really all we need. We do not need tomorrow’s supply, for that day has not yet dawned, and its needs are still unborn.

Each day provides its own gifts.

I always kind of see how I want things to be better, and I’m generally not happy with how things are or the level of service that we’re providing for people or the quality of the teams that we built. But if you look at this objectively, we’re doing so well on so many of these things. I think it’s important to have gratitude for that.

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 essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

I’ve written some great things. That’s a gift, but there’s consequences. Yeah, you get this great work, but you suffer. You really, really suffer.

To the people I forgot, you weren’t on my mind for some reason and you probably don’t deserve any thanks anyway.

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

The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.

I have nothing to ask but that you would remove to the other side, that you may not, by intercepting the sunshine, take from me what you cannot give.

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

I’m an atheist and I thank God for it.