I see one single suitable role for my life's work: for it to be a gift to others.
Leave out my name from the gift if it be a burden, but keep my song.
And then Adam Wilde shows up at Carnegie Hall on the biggest night of my career, and it felt like more than a coincidence. It felt like a gift. From them. For my first recital ever, they gave me a cello. And for this one, they gave me you.
The greatest gift is a passion for reading.
God cannot be solemn, or he would not have blessed man with the incalculable gift of laughter.
Happy the man whom indulgent fortune allows to pay to virtue what he owes to nature, and to make a generous gift of what must otherwise be ravished from him by cruel necessity.
Always wear a smile. The gift of life will then be yours to give.
Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer.
You have a great heart, but will only find it to be so through great pain. This is the wisdom of love, and its doubtful gift. . . . I have endured much suffering and still remain unbitter and unclosed.
I tell the actors that the biggest gift they can give me is to fail. And that the second gift they can give me is to surprise me.
Out of everything - out of the money and the gift bags - the most important thing to me is just my mother and father being happy.
Loving service anonymously given may be unknown to man-but the gift and the giver are known to God.
Every day we live is a priceless gift of God, loaded with possibilities to learn something new, to gain fresh insights.
To give anything less than your best, is to sacrifice the gift.
Life is a gift, love opens it up.
One step at a time, over the years, as I sought to plumb the mystery of suffering (which cannot be plumbed), I began to see that there is a sense in which everything is a gift. Even my widowhood.
For the will and not the gift makes the giver.
Life is a gift, not to possess, but to share.
Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
I'm for freedom, which I believe is a universal value that every human being is and that is a gift from God.