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

However great may be the work for which we are responsible, we will always do well if we pause to spend time in sacred praise.

If we chew every morsel of our food, in that way we become grateful, and when you are grateful, you are happy.

I certainly know that I would not be able to survive if it were not for the fact that I am being upheld by the prayers of so many people.

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

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.

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God – the rest will be given.

When people are around us, they should leave better off than they were previously. Rather than feeling discouraged or defeated, people should feel challenged and inspired after spending any time with you and me.

‚Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them after.

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.

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.

I come from a poor family, I have seen poverty. The poor need respect, and it begins with cleanliness.

You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It’s just a matter of paying attention to this miracle.

A true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refuge from the world.

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

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

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.

Obama’s policies have been approximately the same as Bush’s, though there have been some slight differences, but that’s not a great surprise. The Democrats supported Bush’s policies.

One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.

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.

When you take your attention into the present moment, a certain alertness arises. You become more conscious of what’s around you, but also, strangely, a sense of presence that is both within and without.

The older I get, the better I understand that every day is a gift.

God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.

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

Giving a poor person money keeps them poor.

Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you – gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.

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

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.

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.

To give alms is nothing unless you give thought also.

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

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

I find with most of my readers are kind of like me, sort of people who were a little bit naive in life and then learned the hard way that this is what’s going on, the political games and most of my readers write to me telling me that the book helped them open their eyes to what other people are doing to them.

Blessed is he that expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.

Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.

What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?

If you truly get in touch with a piece of carrot, you get in touch with the soil, the rain, the sunshine. You get in touch with Mother Earth and eating in such a way, you feel in touch with true life, your roots, and that is meditation. If we chew every morsel of our food in that way we become grateful and when you are grateful, you are happy.

Irrespective of age, we mourn for those loved and lost. Mourning is one of the deepest expressions of pure love.

You may think it was a very little thing, and in these days it seems to me like a trifle, but it was a most important incident in my life. I could scarcely credit that I, the poor boy, had earned a dollar in less than a day; that by honest work, I had earned a dollar. I was a more hopeful and thoughtful boy from that time.

He has the most who is most content with the least.

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.

You can’t have it all all at once. Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all, but in given periods in time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

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

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

If you’re in business or politics, you need to have an intense understanding of what’s going on around you.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn’t touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Being a Puerto Rican artist, I support all kinds of projects that are developed on my beautiful island that in some way or another put our Puerto Rican flag up.

Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.

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.

The thing about delirium is you think it’s great, but it actually isn’t.

The outpouring of support from millions of people in the immediate aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti has been impressive.

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

All our actions, as well as our thoughts and words, should praise Him who always blesses us.

Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.

I’m blessed to have such a tight-knit family that we can talk about anything. Whether we talk frequently or not, since we’re on separate ends of the country, there are a lot of moving parts, and we always stay tight and find that center ground that keeps us together.

When your dream is bigger than you are, you only have two choices: give up or get help.

You have to give others the opportunity to love who you love. If they don’t accept it, it’s their loss.

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.

She never envisioned a legal career for me, but she did think it was very important that I be able to support myself, and I think she would be pleased to see what has become of me.

We live in a culture that relishes tearing others down. It’s ultimately more fulfilling, though, to help people reach their goals. Instead of feeling jealous, remember: If God did it for them, He can do it for you.