When eating bamboo sprouts, remember the man who planted them.

Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts.

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

The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.

Be present in all things and thankful for all things.

I know how hard it is to shoot the basketball, so I've got great appreciation for it.

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

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.

To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own.

A problem well-put is half-solved.

You write in order to change the world…the world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even but a millimetre the way people look at reality, then you change it.

The universe is wider than our views of it.

Ignorance never settle a question.

Remember that you ought to behave in life as you would at a banquet. As something is being passed around it comes to you; stretch out your hand, take a portion of it politely. It passes on; do not detain it. Or it has not come to you yet; do not project your desire to meet it, but wait until it comes in front of you. So act toward children, so act toward a wife, so toward office, so toward wealth.

Nothing is more precious than being in the present moment. Fully alive, fully aware.

In order to enjoy the inestimable benefits that the liberty of the press ensures, it is necessary to submit to the inevitable evils that it creates.

May your troubles be less and your blessings be more.

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

O beautiful for spacious skies, For Amber waves of grain, For purple mountain majesties Above the fruited plain! America! America! God shed his grace on thee And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shining sea!

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.

Love is never wasted, for its value does not rest upon reciprocity.

Gratitude is the way to happiness.

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

Fundamentally, there are only to ways of coordinating the economic activities of millions. One is central direction involving the use of coercion — the technique of the army and the modern totalitarian state. The other is voluntary cooperation — the technique of the marketplace.

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

Man lives in a world of surmise, of mystery, of uncertainties.

The problem of our age is the proper administration of wealth, so that the ties of brotherhood may still bond together the rich and poor in harmonious relationship.

And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth.

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

The generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample underfoot. Men are no superior by reason of the accidents of race and color. The are superior who have the best heart—the best brain.

If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.

All that was great in the past was ridiculed, condemned, combated, suppressed — only to emerge all the more powerfully, all the more triumphantly from the struggle.

I am not aware that any community has a right to force another to be civilized.

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.

What is not good for the swarm is not good for the bee.

I let Ike run the country and I ran the home.

If we do not make common cause to save the good old ship of the Union on this voyage, nobody will have a chance to pilot her on another voyage.