The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

It is wonderful to have someone praise you, to be desired.

I don’t have much positive to say about motor neurone disease. But it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I could still do.

Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf.

Life doesn’t require that we be the best, only that we try our best.

With music, you often don’t have to translate it. It just affects you, and you don’t know why.

There are things around, and I know where they can be got quite easily, but I quite like waking up to the sunshine.

When someone does a small task beautifully, their whole environment is affected by it.

He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.

Glory be and praise to God. I didn’t do any of this. God did. I don’t have a recipe or a blueprint. I prayed for it, and my prayers are continuing to be answered.

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

All I can do is try to create my own brand and have people appreciate me for that.

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.

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

We all want to win more, but it’s all about being blessed and embracing your blessings. We have life.

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

What good are fans? You can’t eat applause for breakfast. You can’t sleep with it.

In America, there’s a failure to appreciate Europe’s leading role in the world.

We love things we love what they are.

I never admire another’s fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.

When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility.

I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

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

It is possible to live happily in the here and the now. So many conditions of happiness are available – more than enough for you to be happy right now. You don’t have to run into the future in order to get more.

It doesn’t take long to become aware of the presence of the CIA in Laos.

The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.

Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.

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.

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.

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.

The next time someone tells you we can trim the budget by cutting aid, I hope you will ask whether it will come at the cost of more people dying.

It feels good to have your work respected again.

Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.

Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.

When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?

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.

I always wanted to be a Vine star. I wasn’t, thank God.

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

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.

I don’t have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness – it’s right in front of me if I’m paying attention and practicing gratitude.

Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future. If we can acknowledge our fear, we can realize that right now we are okay. Right now, today, we are still alive, and our bodies are working marvelously. Our eyes can still see the beautiful sky. Our ears can still hear the voices of our loved ones.

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.

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.

Zappa was very technical and impressed by things that were musically challenging – weird time signatures, strange keys, awkward chord sequences. Zappa was important to me as an example of everything I didn’t want to do. I’m very grateful to him, actually.

What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy’s tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes.

Considering their impact, you might expect mosquitoes to get more attention than they do. Sharks kill fewer than a dozen people every year, and in the U.S. they get a week dedicated to them on TV every year.

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

Scientists are not delinquents. Our work has changed the conditions in which men live, but the use made of these changes is the problem of governments, not of scientists.

All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.

When you wash your hands, when you make a cup of coffee, when you’re waiting for the elevator – instead of indulging in thinking, these are all opportunities for being there as a still, alert presence.

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.

I explain the law of compensation like this: ‚Returns are minimal in spite of massive effort at the start, yet returns can be massive with minimal effort over time.

Talent and effort, combined with our various backgrounds and life experiences, has always been the lifeblood of our singular American genius.

We should not look down on our first ancestors.

Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges.

A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.

Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.

I try to live what I teach. A lot of things come against us in life, but we should try to find something to be grateful for, and see each day as a gift.

The artist part of me always wants to be appreciated. I read every review. But I never wanted to seek validation by awards or anything controlled by politics.