We don’t thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient.

I wake up every day inspiring myself, because God gave me life.

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

Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

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.

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.

If I get stuck, I look at a book that tells me how someone else did it. I turn the pages, and then I say, ‚Oh, I forgot that bit,‘ then close the book and carry on. Finally, after you’ve figured out how to do it, you read how they did it and find out how dumb your solution is and how much more clever and efficient theirs is!

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.

Understand, when you eat meat, that something did die. You have an obligation to value it – not just the sirloin but also all those wonderful tough little bits.

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.

Power has only one duty – to secure the social welfare of the People.

We have the duty to protect the life of an unborn child.

On my desk I have three screens, synchronized to form a single desktop. I can drag items from one screen to the next. Once you have that large display area, you’ll never go back, because it has a direct impact on productivity.

I stayed focused, and I never surrendered, and now I’ve been blessed. now I take care of my mother, my father, and my entire whole family.

The PC has improved the world in just about every area you can think of. Amazing developments in communications, collaboration and efficiencies. New kinds of entertainment and social media. Access to information and the ability to give a voice people who would never have been heard.

If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying.

If you calculate 15 minutes a day to shave, that is 5,000 minutes a year spent shaving.

The Pope loves everyone, rich and poor alike, but the Pope has the duty, in Christ’s name, to remind the rich to help the poor, to respect them, to promote them.

Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There’s a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

My greatest blessing has been the birth of my son. My next greatest blessing has been my ability to turn people into children of mine.

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.

I like to do things quickly because I’m easily bored.

Pick the day. Enjoy it – to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come… The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present – and I don’t want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future.

Giving is true having.

When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect toward others.

I know that when I pray, something wonderful happens. Not just to the person or persons for whom I’m praying, but also something wonderful happens to me. I’m grateful that I’m heard.

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

Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.

I was a chemistry major, but I’m always winding up as a teacher in English departments, so I’ve brought scientific thinking to literature. There’s been very little gratitude for this.

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

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

Outsourcing is inevitable, and I don’t think it’s necessarily treating people like things.

What’s important for my daughter to know is that… if you are fortunate to have opportunity, it is your duty to make sure other people have those opportunities as well.

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

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.

I have a company, and I’ve got to think about that. I’m trying to do my best there, and that’s a much harder task. We recycle as much as possible, and we conserve. But I’ve always been one to save everything – I even walk up stairs on the very inside or the very outside to not wear out the tread.

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

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.

Managers today have to do more with less, and get better results from limited resources, more than ever before.

The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.

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

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

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

Never take anything for granted.

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.‘

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‘.

My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater than he would ever claim.

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

Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.

I’m grateful to intelligent people. That doesn’t mean educated. That doesn’t mean intellectual. I mean really intelligent. What black old people used to call ‚mother wit‘ means intelligence that you had in your mother’s womb. That’s what you rely on. You know what’s right to do.

I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana’s loss, and gratitude for her all-too-short life. It is a chance to show to the whole world the British nation united in grief and respect.

I know of only one duty, and that is to love.

Do I worry about being in the public eye and raising kids? Yeah. Any situation you’re in, you’re gonna worry about raising kids. But it’s champagne problems, too. There are people who can’t feed their kids.

There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.

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.

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.

I don’t think you should spend your life praying for things, but I do believe you should thank God for what He’s given you… but I think the scripture teaches us that we can pray for our dreams, pray for the big things… he’s not a small God; this God is incredible.

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

An employer of mine back in the ’80s was kind enough to take me on after a rough patch, and it made a big difference in my life that I knew I was the sort of person who showed up on time. It’s a basic tell of character.

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.