I was a chemistry major, but I’m always winding up as a teacher in English departments, so I’ve brought scientific thinking to literature. There’s been very little gratitude for this.

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.

If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help… Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business – you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.

I don’t do Shakespeare. I don’t talk in that kind of broken English.

Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.

For the people who ostensibly wish me well or are worried about my immortal soul, I say I take it kindly.

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

I just make good movies. That’s the way I thank my fans.

There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

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.

My mother was a public school teacher in Virginia, and we didn’t have any money, we just survived on happiness, on being a happy family.

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

Wow, I get to wake up again? Ok. You have to make good with what you’ve got.

Everything we touch in our daily lives, including our body, is a miracle. By putting the kingdom of god in the right place, it shows us it is possible to live happily right here, right now.

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

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.

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.

I don’t think I’ve ever read poetry, ever.

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

The book that convinced me I wanted to be a writer was ‚Crime and Punishment‘. I put the thing down after reading it in a fever over two or three days… I said, ‚If this is what a book can be, then that is what I want to do.‘

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.

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

There is nothing which can better deserve your patronage, than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.

Every utopia – let’s just stick with the literary ones – faces the same problem: What do you do with the people who don’t fit in?

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.

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

The Revlon Run/Walk effort to focus on women’s cancer has my wholehearted support and gratitude.

Now is the winter of our discontent.

I wasn’t trying to be an outlaw writer. I never heard of that term; somebody else made it up. But we were all outside the law: Kerouac, Miller, Burroughs, Ginsberg, Kesey; I didn’t have a gauge as to who was the worst outlaw. I just recognized allies: my people.

Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince.

Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process.

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.

Never take anything for granted.

On the first day of school, my teacher, Miss Mdingane, gave each of us an English name and said that from thenceforth that was the name we would answer to in school. This was the custom among Africans in those days and was undoubtedly due to the British bias of our education.

And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.

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.

Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.

If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men’s cottage princes‘ palaces.

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

I’m grateful for always this moment, the now, no matter what form it takes.

Understand, when you eat meat, that something did die. You have an obligation to value it – not just the sirloin but also all those wonderful tough little bits.

I’m not well-read, but when I read, I read well.

If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying.

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.

There is such a thing as ‚thanks-feeling‘ – feeling thankful. This ought to be the general, universal spirit of the Christian.

Early on, I was so impressed with Charles Dickens. I grew up in the South, in a little village in Arkansas, and the whites in my town were really mean, and rude. Dickens, I could tell, wouldn’t be a man who would curse me out and talk to me rudely.

Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me.

Miss a meal if you have to, but don’t miss a book.

I am deeply grateful to the citizens of Sarajevo and the Sarajevo Canton assembly for bestowing upon me this incredible honor of citizenship. I am so proud to now be a part of such an extraordinary part of the world and fellow citizen to the people I deeply love and admire.

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.

All good books have one thing in common – they are truer than if they had really happened.

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

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.

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.

God didn’t make me to make movies, flex muscles, buy gold. What you love the most becomes your God… If I never make another dollar, my life is complete.

The U.S.S. George H. W. Bush is a great thing in my life. It’s amazing. A great honor.

I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.

Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.

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.

My life turned out to be beyond my greatest dreams.