The Revlon Run/Walk effort to focus on women’s cancer has my wholehearted support and gratitude.

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

I thank God I’m in a position where I can pick and choose – there are some roles I don’t play.

Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.

Never take anything for granted.

I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.

I believe if you keep your faith, you keep your trust, you keep the right attitude, if you’re grateful, you’ll see God open up new doors.

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.

When we are well, we all have good advice for those who are ill.

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.

Few of us can stand prosperity. Another man’s, I mean.

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

Everyone here has the sense that right now is one of those moments when we are influencing the future.

The greatest gift is the ability to forget – to forget the bad things and focus on the good.

I’ll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it’s sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot.

I always knew that St. Jude was an amazing organization but meeting the kids and seeing how the hospital works first hand was truly beautiful. It doesn’t feel like a regular hospital all dreary and sad. It’s a colorful, beautiful, comfortable, fun place to live and the energy is wonderful.

Working with our military community has been the biggest honor of my life.

When the mind is empty, silent, when it is in a state of complete negation – which is not blankness, nor the opposite of being positive, but a totally different state in which all thought has ceased – only then is it possible for that which is unnameable to come into being.

One of the most important decisions you’ll ever make is choosing the kind of universe you exist in: is it helpful and supportive or hostile and unsupportive? Your answer to this question will make all the difference in terms of how you live your life and what kind of Divine assistance you attract.

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

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.

When one’s expectations are reduced to zero, one really appreciates everything one does have.

I think that all people who feel that there is injustice in the world anywhere should learn as much of it as they can bear. That is our duty.

I have a big gay and lesbian following and they’ve been very loyal and kind to me.

Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.

The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.

You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

I don’t like to beat people down. They need to be lifted up.

The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it – and sometimes three.

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.

Sisters are brittle things. God was penurious with me, which makes me shrewd with Him. One is a dainty sum! One bird, one cage, one flight; one song in those far woods, as yet suspected by faith only!

Encouragement to all women is – let us try to offer help before we have to offer therapy. That is to say, let’s see if we can’t prevent being ill by trying to offer a love of prevention before illness.

The Occupy movement did create spontaneously communities that taught people something: you can be in a supportive community of mutual aid and cooperation and develop your own health system and library and have open space for democratic discussion and participation. Communities like that are really important.

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

It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.

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.

I am who I am today because of my mother.

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.

My life turned out to be beyond my greatest dreams.

I am for people. I can’t help it.

Rose Adams is a wonderful Christian woman who cared for my mother, Morrow Coffey Graham, in her last years of life.

I have enjoyed great satisfaction from my climb of Everest and my trips to the poles. But there’s no doubt that my most worthwhile things have been the building of schools and medical clinics.

The eye sees what it brings the power to see.

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.

The Qataris have cut off support for the most extreme elements of terrorist organizations.

Prejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thinking mind. It means you don’t see the other human being anymore, but only your own concept of that human being. To reduce the aliveness of another human being to a concept is already a form of violence.

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

‚Suffering should not make us bitter people,‘ my mother once said, ‚it should make us better comforters.‘ Young people need to hear this from those who have walked before them, because someday they’ll be walking those same steps, but there may not be anyone following behind.

Some days I totally appreciate everything that’s happening to me, and some days I feel everyone’s waiting for me to mess up.

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, ‚I used everything you gave me‘.

The fame isn’t important to me. It’s a blessing to have. Having so many people that support me, that love me and listen to my music, is beautiful.

I knew through the surgeries that he was on my side and that this wasn’t something where I was gonna feel less of a woman, because my husband wasn’t gonna let that happen.

The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.

There is such a thing as ‚thanks-feeling‘ – feeling thankful. This ought to be the general, universal spirit of the Christian.

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.

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.

In cricket, my superhero is Sachin Tendulkar. He has always been my hero and will continue to remain so. Apart from him and outside cricket, my mother has remained my inspiration. Whatever difficult time I had faced, she was always there for me. She has given me all the strength. She maintained her composure and supported me in tough times.

We need every person on Earth to acknowledge that climate change is real and encourage each other and our leaders to address the challenge.

We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

When you’re in prison, you want to know that you were thought about.

My family has never been there for me. They expect things because we’re blood.