How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach, when feeling out of sight for the ends of being and ideal grace.

When I was playing before I retired, I never really understood the appreciation and respect that people gave me. People had treated me like a god or something, and that was very embarrassing.

I have yet to find a man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism.

A man, to carry on a successful business, must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing. A man can cultivate this faculty only by an appreciation for the finer things in life.

A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.

Hold every moment sacred. Give each clarity and meaning, each the weight of thine awareness, each its true and due fulfillment.

I pray Heaven to bestow the best of the blessings on this house and all that shall hereafter inhabit it. May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof.

We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

Count your blessings. You are one of a kind. There’s no one in the world like you. You are amazing.

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.

Learn to get in touch with silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.

Bless a thing and it will bless you. Curse it and it will curse you. . . If you bless a situation, it has no power to hurt you, and even if it is troublesome for a time, it will gradually fade out, if you sincerely bless it.

I lay it down as a fact that if all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.

It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.

The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.

We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies—it is the first law of nature.

Be happy with what you have while working for what you want.

No duty is more urgent than giving thanks.

Seek not, my soul, the life of the immortals; but enjoy to the full resources that are within thy reach.

Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.

Be grateful for your life, every detail of it, and your face will come to shine like a sun, and everyone who sees it will be made glad and peaceful.

May your troubles be less and your blessings be more.

Any one thing in creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to a humble and grateful mind.

Master of human destinies am I! Fame, love, and fortune on my footsteps wait.

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

Love is reflected in love.

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

It never ceases to amaze me: We all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.

Between what is said and not meant, and what is meant and not said, most of love is lost.

As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.