It’s cool to be recognised by your peers.

People are always coming up to me and saying, ‚I heard your dad’s speech, and it’s really great.‘ And they’ll mention some place I didn’t even know my dad was going to.

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.

I was going to McDonald’s and Taco Bell every day. The kids behind the counter knew me – it wouldn’t even faze them. Or I’d sit up at Denny’s or Big Boy and just eat by myself. It was sad. I got so heavy that people started to not recognize me.

The way to know life is to love many things.

Continuous eloquence wearies. Grandeur must be abandoned to be appreciated. Continuity in everything is unpleasant. Cold is agreeable, that we may get warm.

No one wants advice – only corroboration.

Never take anything for granted.

It feels good to have your work respected again.

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.

Don’t worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.

I’ve always loved black culture; I don’t know any other way to put it. Since I was a kid I loved music and early jazz, Sly and the Family Stone. I’m older – I’m in my early 50s – so you’ll have to excuse me. That was always very exciting to me to connect to the culture on that level.

As far as a glass ceiling, I feel that all you can do is give it your absolute best with whatever gifts the universe has given you. And if you make it in some way that other people can recognize, that’s fine. But even if you don’t quote-unquote make it, you’re fine if you’ve given it your whole heart and soul.

In many ways, when you’re a Nobel peace laureate, you have an obligation to humankind, to society.

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.

How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!

Appraisals are where you get together with your team leader and agree what an outstanding member of the team you are, how much your contribution has been valued, what massive potential you have and, in recognition of all this, would you mind having your salary halved.

There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.

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.

For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.

I cannot conceive of Israel withdrawing if Arab states do not recognize Israel, within secure borders.

One thing I just want to say to the military families – while you might not wear a uniform, I know – we all know, the nation knows – that you serve and sacrifice right alongside of your loved ones. And we are so grateful and proud of all of you for your service to this nation.

Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered – either by themselves or by others.

People who want the most approval get the least and people who need approval the least get the most.

Being acknowledged for your work is always a great accomplishment, whether it’s people in my city, kids in the street, all the way up to the Grammys.

A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, ‚Huh. It works. It makes sense.‘

I love life because what more is there?

I believe that my parents did wonderful things for us.

Joy in looking and comprehending is nature’s most beautiful gift.

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.

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

It’s always wonderful to get to know women, with the mystery and the joy and the depth. If you can make a woman laugh, you’re seeing the most beautiful thing on God’s Earth.

What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

Of course awards matter.

And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater than he would ever claim.

If you are a leader, you should never forget that everyone needs encouragement. And everyone who receives it – young or old, successful or less-than-successful, unknown or famous – is changed by it.

I knew no one who’d ever been in the public eye.

If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.

Look folks, we know who built this country and we know who is going to rebuild it. It’s you. Instead of vilifying you, we should be thanking you. We owe you.

To this day, some of my closest friends say, ‚Gaga, you know, everything’s great. You’re a singer; your dreams have come true.‘ But, still, when certain things are said to you over and over again as you’re growing up, it stays with you and you wonder if they’re true.

What good are fans? You can’t eat applause for breakfast. You can’t sleep with it.

I never leaf through a copy of National Geographic without realizing how lucky we are to live in a society where it is traditional to wear clothes.

There are things around, and I know where they can be got quite easily, but I quite like waking up to the sunshine.

If I heard someone else singing like me, I would buy it in a heartbeat.

A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Remember that a gesture of friendship, no matter how small, is always appreciated.

The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.

At the end of the day, your fans are the people who support you in and out. And their opinions matter.

Being ‚contented‘ ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position.

If anyone remembers me, it’s about my hard work.

I’m the most recognized and loved man that ever lived cuz there weren’t no satellites when Jesus and Moses were around, so people far away in the villages didn’t know about them.

The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.

It undoubtedly feels nice when you are being appreciated and you get complimented by girls. Who doesn’t like that? Having said that, I don’t take it as any pressure.

Whatever is well said by another, is mine.

Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by myself.

It’s a very strange thing being recognized or looked upon as someone special.