‚Thank you‘ is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.

When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.

No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground.

I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the presidency.

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.

The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him.

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.

Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that’s when something snaps up and bites you.

Many people are alive but don’t touch the miracle of being alive.

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.

If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.

Humility is not something that comes naturally. But it is a cardinal virtue that should be pursued more than any other.

There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.

We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.

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

I do believe that in order to be a successful negotiator that as a diplomat, you have to be able to put yourself into the other person’s shoes. Unless you can understand what is motivating them, you are never going to be able to figure out how to solve a particular problem.

At the end of the day, the TV show is the best job in the world. I get to go anywhere I want, eat and drink whatever I want. As long as I just babble at the camera, other people will pay for it. It’s a gift.

Solemnity is proper in church, but things that are proper in church are not necessarily proper outside, and vice versa. For example, I can say a prayer while washing my teeth, but that does not mean I should wash my teeth in church.

God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with.

There’s a deceptive sin that can keep us from walking in love: pride. It’s deceptive because when you have pride, you’re usually too proud to admit it. I know this because I used to have teachings on pride and they didn’t sell well.

It’s always interesting about God because it’s like all of the religions in the world say that they pray to the same God, and yet they ask that same one God to divide itself up and agree with this one and fight against that one.

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

The first fresh hour of every morning should be dedicated to the Lord, whose mercy gladdens it with golden light.

I don’t think culture is something you can describe.

Well, to the people who pray for me to not only have an agonising death, but then be reborn to have an agonising and horrible eternal life of torture, I say, ‚Well, good on you. See you there.‘

The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.

It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.

A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding.

When people need love and understanding and support the most is when they deserve it the least.

Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything.

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.

It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.

Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.

In my entire life, any time I’ve ever lost something, I’ve gotten something even better going around the next corner. It’s like one door closes and another door opens. As long as I can walk through the produce section in every grocery store in this country and eat the grapes that they’re going to throw away, I know I can be fine.

Science is nothing but perception.

The goal for me is always to have the opportunity to work in different genres. This is a great and exciting time in my career, where I can have the opportunity to work in different genres, and also I recognize there’s not a lot of actors who have that opportunity and I’m grateful for it.

Once you appreciate one of your blessings, one of your senses, your sense of hearing, then you begin to respect the sense of seeing and touching and tasting, you learn to respect all the senses.

I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won’t presume to probe into the faults of others.

I’m an atheist and I thank God for it.

There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.

Gravitation is, so far, not understandable in terms of other phenomena.

If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.

He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.

I have a very good family. I’m very fortunate to have a very good family. I believe very strongly in the family. It’s one of the things we have in our platform, is to talk about it.

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.

Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

Sacrifice, discipline and prayer are essential. We gain strength through God’s word. We receive grace from the sacrament. And when we fumble due to sin – and it’s gonna happen – confession puts us back on the field.

The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.

It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.

I’m a religious woman. And I feel I have responsibility. I have no modesty at all. I’m even afraid of it – it’s a learned affectation and it’s just stuck on me like decals. Now I pray for humility because that comes from inside out.

To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.

If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.

Spend more time in study and prayer. That’s the secret of successful evangelism.

My friend has a baby. I’m recording all the noises he makes so later I can ask him what he meant.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

I’m always asked, ‚What’s the secret to success?‘ But there are no secrets. Be humble. Be hungry. And always be the hardest worker in the room.

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

I said I was ‚The Greatest,‘ I never said I was the smartest!

I am grateful to be a woman. I must have done something great in another life.