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

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

I am just happy to be part of the Nike family.

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.

I didn’t die young. So I am very lucky. There are other artists and people that didn’t survive certain things… people can imagine that I did the most dangerous, and I did the worst… for many reasons, I shouldn’t be here.

I want to thank The Beatles for almost single-handedly getting me out of writer’s block.

I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose.

I may not be where I want to be, but thank God I am not where I used to be.

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

Every day is a gift from God. Learn to focus on the Giver and enjoy the gift!

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.

This Sunday School has been of help to me, greater perhaps than any other force in my Christian life, and I can ask no better things for you than that you, and all that shall come after you in this great band of workers for Christ, shall receive the same measure of blessedness which I have been permitted to have.

I’ve been very fortunate.

A man’s felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.

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.

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

Ageing’s alright, better than the alternative, which is not being here.

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

My general attitude to life is to enjoy every minute of every day. I never do anything with a feeling of, ‚Oh God, I’ve got to do this today.‘

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.

Oh, hour of forgiven sin, moment of perfect pardon, our soul shall never forget you while, within you, life and being find immortality!

It definitely has learning a lesson about the way you’re living your life. I wouldn’t compare our movie to that, but it has a structure where it’s about a man who doesn’t appreciate all that he has and finds out at the end that life has been great and he has to enjoy that.

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

As you know, I’m an immigrant. I came over here as an immigrant, and what gave me the opportunities, what made me to be here today, is the open arms of Americans. I have been received. I have been adopted by America.

‚O sleep, O gentle sleep,‘ I thought gratefully, ‚Nature’s soft nurse!‘

I look at where I’m at today and realize that most of my success is owed to the mentors that was in my life.

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.

Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.

I try to look on all the great things God’s done, and not focus on the negative. It’s a perspective.

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.

I want to thank you for taking time out of your day to come and witness my hanging.

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.

Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.

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

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

Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.

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.

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

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

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.

I have always been grateful to Colonel Longley. He proved to me that when people in authority take a stand, good can come out of it.

My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.

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.

I’m grateful to intelligent people. That doesn’t mean educated. That doesn’t mean intellectual. I mean really intelligent. What black old people used to call ‚mother wit‘ means intelligence that you had in your mother’s womb. That’s what you rely on. You know what’s right to do.

I’m grateful for the opportunities God gave me to minister to people in high places; people in power have spiritual and personal needs like everyone else, and often they have no one to talk to.

I’m healthy as can be – not an ache or a pain. A lot of my prayer is thanking the Lord that I am healthy. I pray for long life and good health.

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

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

If I inspire you, pay for it, period.

I know that when I pray, something wonderful happens. Not just to the person or persons for whom I’m praying, but also something wonderful happens to me. I’m grateful that I’m heard.

Living big and joyful and content is almost always the result of our finding satisfaction in life’s ordinary day-to-day pleasures. And God must be fond of them, too, for He made so many of them for us to enjoy.

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

If you give, you will be blessed.

I never needed much, and I never thought I’d get more than what I had. A trip to Burger King was the biggest thing in the world to me. Heaven.

There’s no happier person than a truly thankful, content person.

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.

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 don’t want to be too critical of what other people do, but when people go back to do the same thing that they did, I’m completely confused. I’m like, ‚Didn’t you make that movie already?‘ I’ve been very fortunate, and I’m well taken care of, so the least I can do is try to go forward.

I work very hard, but when God opens that door for you – when life opens that door for you, I should say – I think it’s important to be giving, to return the love back.

Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.

Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.