Fortune, good night, smile once more; turn thy wheel!

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.

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.

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

To appreciate the beauty of a snowflake, it is necessary to stand out in the cold.

Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.

Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them.

America’s abundance was not created by public sacrifices to the “common good,” but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes.

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

A fair character is a fair fortune.

This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune—often the surfeit of our own behavior—we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars; as if we were villains by necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion, knaves, thieves, and teachers by spherical predominance, drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforced obedience of planetary influence.

The man who is truly good and wise will bear with dignity whatever fortune sends, and will always make the best of his circumstances.

An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate, a fortune which we can never exhaust and which gives us year by year a revenue of pleasurable activity.

Silent gratitude isn't very much to anyone.

Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn’t learn a little, at least we didn’t get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn’t die; so, let us all be thankful.

There are two ways to get enough: One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.

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

Put your greatest possession on the tallest shelf, so if you fall you have something to reach for.

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

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

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.

Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.

Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you do or as fast. There is a time when you didn't know what you know today.

Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.

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.

I love people. I love my family, my children… but inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that’s where you renew your springs that never dry up.

Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.