It is wonderful to have someone praise you, to be desired.

Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.

The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.

Naturally, there are times when every woman likes to be flattered… to feel she is the most important thing in someone’s world. Only a man can paint this picture.

I don’t have any terrific self-esteem issues but I do sometimes realise I’ve been too lucky and that I’m over-praised. It makes me nervous. I have this sense of being overrated.

The making of the far-famed New York Central Park was opposed by even good men, with misguided pluck, perseverance, and ingenuity, but straight right won its way, and now that park is appreciated. So we confidently believe it will be with our great national parks and forest reservations.

Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.

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.‘

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.

To love someone means to see him as God intended him.

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

We love things we love what they are.

If I’m a star, then the people made me a star.

The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.

I owe the best of myself to geology, but everything it has taught me tends to turn me away from dead things.

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

Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.

We can’t all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by.

Smiling makes me feel weak and not in control and not powerful and small.

The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.

I hear my friends and my mom tell me I’m special, but honestly, I still don’t get it.

Having other comedians complimenting my work is the biggest accolade that I can get.

My belief is that we were put into this world of wonders and beauty with a special ability to appreciate them, in some cases to have the fun of taking a hand in developing them, and also in being able to help other people instead of overreaching them and, through it all, to enjoy life – that is, to be happy.

The ideas associated with the problems of the development of science, as far as I can see by looking around me, are not of the kind that everyone appreciates.

There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.

When we recognise the virtues, the talent, the beauty of Mother Earth, something is born in us, some kind of connection, love is born.

No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they’re pretty, even if they aren’t.

I was called ‚Dumbo,‘ like the elephant, as a child because I couldn’t understand things at school.

It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so.

A man’s interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.

Friends applaud, the comedy is over.

O God, we praise Thee for keeping us till this day, and for the full assurance that Thou wilt never let us go.

An empowered organisation is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organisational success.

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.

I do not doubt that we would become more useful if we praised God more, and others would join us, for they would see that God has blessed us.

I didn’t think Marilyn Monroe was beautiful. It used to worry me. I thought maybe I’m not put together like the other chaps.

Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.

It’s not tyranny we desire; it’s a just, limited, federal government.

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire. The other is to gain it.

Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.

It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.

Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.

I got a lot of support from my parents. That’s the one thing I always appreciated. They didn’t tell me I was being stupid; they told me I was being funny.

There are very few people who really appreciate my shows. People come to the show and they pay and they enjoy it, but I don’t really think most people really understand what they’ve seen.

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!

The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.

Self-respect knows no considerations.

I do value the respect I get from my contemporaries, but to have Oasis cover my song, to have Puff Daddy cover a song, to have Goldie come along to my gigs – that’s where my ego is at. To have my fellow musicians like what I do, that’s very cool.

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.

A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice.

When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream.

Do you wish people to think well of you? Don’t speak well of yourself.

When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.

Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.

Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity.

Fill the earth with your songs of gratitude.

Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.

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.

Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?