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

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‘.

I walk every day, and I look at the mountains and the fields and the small city, and I say: ‚Oh my God, what a blessing.‘ Then you realise it’s important to put it in a context beyond this woman, this man, this city, this country, this universe.

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.

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

A daily portion is really all we need. We do not need tomorrow’s supply, for that day has not yet dawned, and its needs are still unborn.

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

Even with all of the things that are so awful, if you walk into your yard and stay there looking at almost anything for five minutes, you will be stunned by how marvelous life is and how incredibly lucky we are to have it.

My father wasn’t around when I was a kid, and I used to always say, ‚Why me? Why don’t I have a father? Why isn’t he around? Why did he leave my mother?‘ But as I got older I looked deeper and thought, ‚I don’t know what my father was going through, but if he was around all the time, would I be who I am today?‘

If it wasn’t for baseball, I’d be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.

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

When someone bestows something on you, no matter how true it is, when someone says, ‚Sexiest Man Alive,‘ I’m honestly going, ‚Thank you. Right on.‘ For me, it’s never canceled out anything, it’s never made me go, ‚Does this make me less talented of an actor?‘

To be recognized for the hard work my team and I put into ‚Starboy‘ is an honor.

I’ve been really, really fortunate.

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

A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.

I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.

The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.

When you focus on how wonderful God is and all the great things He’s done… is doing… and even will do in your life, your natural response will be praise, adoration and awe. Don’t let yourself ever get used to it… stay amazed!

Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.

Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.

Every day is a gift from God, no matter how old we are.

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

How much better it would be if all could be more aware of God’s providence and love and express that gratitude 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.

I wake up some mornings and sit and have my coffee and look out at my beautiful garden, and I go, ‚Remember how good this is. Because you can lose it.‘

There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.

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

There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

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

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

I am not young but I feel young. The day I feel old, I will go to bed and stay there. J’aime la vie! I feel that to live is a wonderful thing.

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.‘

All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

Everything we touch in our daily lives, including our body, is a miracle. By putting the kingdom of god in the right place, it shows us it is possible to live happily right here, right now.

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

Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.

Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.

I have nothing to ask but that you would remove to the other side, that you may not, by intercepting the sunshine, take from me what you cannot give.

It’s an honor for me to represent urban music, reggaeton, trap and hip-hop.

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.

Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

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

If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.

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

For all the supporters of Tesla over the years, and it’s been several years now and there have been some very tough times, I’d just like to say thank you very much. I deeply appreciate the support, particularly through the darkest times.

Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.

I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.

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.

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

Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.

I wouldn’t be here today if it were not for the NHS. I have received a large amount of high-quality treatment without which I would not have survived.

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.

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.

Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content.

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

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.

The happiest part of a man’s life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.

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.

For me, being raised in a free America made all the difference.