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 tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is plunder.

You are important enough to ask and you are blessed enough to receive back.

We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.

Applause is a receipt, not a bill.

Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?

The community – more than two billion people use our products, and we get that, with that, a lot of people are using that for a lot of good, but we also have a responsibility to mitigate the darker things that people are gonna try to do.

Generally speaking, men are held in great esteem in all parts of the world, so why shouldn’t women have their share? Soldiers and war heroes are honored and commemorated, explorers are granted immortal fame, martyrs are revered, but how many people look upon women too as soldiers?

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.‘

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

Every day or two, I strolled to the village to hear some of the gossip which is incessantly going on there, circulating either from mouth to mouth, or from newspaper to newspaper, and which, taken in homeopathic doses, was really as refreshing in its way as the rustle of leaves and the peeping of frogs.

We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.

I just genuinely feel that that’s what you do when you’re an artist: You stick up for the people around you.

That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep.

My greatest blessing has been the birth of my son. My next greatest blessing has been my ability to turn people into children of mine.

Feeling like you’re respected among the people who do the same thing you do is incredible and necessary.

I’m just glad to be feeling better. I really thought I’d be seeing Elvis soon.

Understand, our police officers put their lives on the line for us every single day. They’ve got a tough job to do to maintain public safety and hold accountable those who break the law.

It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much.

Social media has given us this idea that we should all have a posse of friends when in reality, if we have one or two really good friends, we are lucky.

I am not young but I feel young. The day I feel old, I will go to bed and stay there. J’aime la vie! I feel that to live is a wonderful thing.

I’m living a dream I never want to wake up from.

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.

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

The answer to the problem of inequality is for the people who are fortunate enough to either have been gifted or deserved more to do everything they can to make the communities around them as strong as they possibly can.

I’ve been a lot more into Facebook and Twitter and Instagram, which was a bit complicated for me to understand the language of each social media, because they all talk in different ways. It’s a nice way for me to tell people I appreciate them, which I forget to do sometimes.

There is so much that people take for granted.

We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another.

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.

Give yourself a gift of five minutes of contemplation in awe of everything you see around you. Go outside and turn your attention to the many miracles around you. This five-minute-a-day regimen of appreciation and gratitude will help you to focus your life in awe.

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

I love to sit and eat quietly and enjoy each bite, aware of the presence of my community, aware of all the hard and loving work that has gone into my food.

Pick the day. Enjoy it – to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come… The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present – and I don’t want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future.

Self-government does not and should not imply the use of political agencies alone. Progress is born of cooperation in the community – not from governmental restraints.

Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content.

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.

We have observed that, in society and the world in which we live, selfishness has increased more than love for others, and that men of good will must work, each with his own strengths and expertise, to ensure that love for others increases until it is equal and possibly exceeds love for oneself.

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

I’ve met some Evertonians in the street, and they’ve been friendly. I’ve had taxi drivers who have been Everton fans. They’ve been really nice.

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

The intensity of the football and how the people live football in Liverpool – it is not a usual.

My main focus is always to do well on the field for the Indian cricket team. When people say good things about me off the field, I am more than happy to accept them.

Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.

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

I never admire another’s fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.

We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood.

I never said I was the best in anything. I never said I’m an icon. The world decides all of that.

The voting booth joint is a great leveler; the whole neighborhood – rich, poor, old, young, decrepit and spunky – they all turn out in one day.

The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That is why true artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge.

We love things we love what they are.

We don’t thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient.

Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.

I believe God’s keeping the records, and I believe you will be rewarded even in this life. Somehow, some way, God will make it up to you. It may be He protected you from an accident you never knew. You can’t give God something without God giving you more in return, whether it’s peace or joy or satisfaction.

I do put a lot of God in my music, but not because I’m super religious. There are a lot of demons in my music, too. I acknowledge both.

I thank God for my failures. Maybe not at the time but after some reflection. I never feel like a failure just because something I tried has failed.

The government is us; we are the government, you and I.

You can’t have everything. Where would you put it?

I don’t want flowers or candy or anything like that. I just want somebody to say, ‚Wow, you’ve done a great job.‘

If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn’t take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.