The U.S.S. George H. W. Bush is a great thing in my life. It’s amazing. A great honor.

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

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

My mother made me truly appreciate women.

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.‘

You have to like the present; if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future.

We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.

Mine is only one of the millions of hearts broken over the death of Whitney Houston, I will always be grateful and in awe of the wonderful performance she did on my song, and I can truly say from the bottom of my heart, ‚Whitney, I will always love you. You will be missed.‘

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

God can cause opportunity to find you. He has unexpected blessings where you suddenly meet the right person, or suddenly your health improves, or suddenly you’re able to pay off your house. That’s God shifting things in your favor.

I care very deeply about the people at Tesla. I feel like I have a great debt to the people of Tesla who are making the company successful.

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.

Here ends my forever memorable first High Sierra excursion. I have crossed the Range of Light, surely the brightest and best of all the Lord has built. And, rejoicing in its glory, I gladly, gratefully, hopefully pray I may see it again.

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.

I did not, thank the Lord, have to have a hysterectomy.

If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help… Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business – you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.

Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.

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 think that is a better thing than thanksgiving: thanks-living. How is this to be done? By a general cheerfulness of manner, by an obedience to the command of Him by whose mercy we live, by a perpetual, constant delighting of ourselves in the Lord, and by a submission of our desires to His will.

I believe God, Jesus, died that we not just go to Heaven but that we excel in this life. I never think you make money your goal… God wants you to excel. Just keep Him in first place, and God will open up doors you never dreamed of.

Right now I’m just delighted to be alive and to have had a nice long bath.

A lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.

Fortunately, we have help from the media. I have to say this: I’m very grateful for the support and kindness that we’ve gotten. People have respected their privacy and in that way, I think, you know, no matter what people may feel about my husband’s policies or what have you, they care about children and that’s been good to see.

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

Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.

It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought.

Pride is an independent, me-oriented spirit. It makes people arrogant, rude and hard to get along with. When our heart is prideful, we don’t give God the credit and we mistreat people, looking down on them and thinking we deserve what we have.

If you seek truth you will not seek victory by dishonorable means, and if you find truth you will become invincible.

Every blessing ignored becomes a curse.

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.

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

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

Britney Spears was an incredible dancer. That kid was amazing.

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.

I thank God I’m myself and for the life I’m given to live and for friends and lovers and beloveds, and I thank God for knowing that all those people have already paid for me.

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

Indeed, it is as important to learn how to receive a blessing as it is to be willing to give one.

Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process.

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.

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

I believe that my parents did wonderful things for us.

I make such big efforts to forget things and I can’t tell the story of my life because, thank God, I’m still living it.

The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.

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

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

Wow, I get to wake up again? Ok. You have to make good with what you’ve got.

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

I know I do not exaggerate, unconsciously and unintentionally, the scantiness of my resources and the difficulty of my life… I know that, but for the mercy of God, I might easily have been, for any care that was taken of me, a little robber or a vagabond.

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

I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn’t know it then.

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.

Our greatness has always come from people who expect nothing and take nothing for granted – folks who work hard for what they have, then reach back and help others after them.

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

A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.

Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.

The post of honour is a private station.

It’s flattering to people who stop you and say that you’ve helped them and all. But, again, you know, you’ve got to stay humble because as quick as you came up, you can come down.

It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.

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.

I am a lucky man. I have had a dream and it has come true, and that is not a thing that happens often to men.