A fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult.
Gratitude is a vaccine, an antitoxin, and an antiseptic.
I've always loved War's Low Rider and Sly Stone's Thank You, and I just wanted to put my take on them.
The Vietnamese have a secret weapon. It's their willingness to die beyond our willingness to kill. In effect, they've been saying, You can kill us, but you'll have to kill a lot of us; you may have to kill all of us. And, thank heaven, we are not yet ready to do that.
It doesn't escape me for one moment that so much joy in my life is thanks to so much pain in someone else's.
People who give will never be poor.
Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.
That's the funny thing about America--the blessed thing. As many people as there are to hold you back, there are angels whose humanity makes up for all the others. I've had my share of angels.
To my three sons, Peter, Scott, and Alexander who pulled me from the 18th Century and back into the present on a regular basis and therefore made me a better person, thank you. And to my wife, who sits at the table there. Who is right about almost everything.
Some people asked me if I would be interested in managing the A's. I said a definite no thank you. At night, that place is a graveyard with lights.
Gratitude is something of which none of us can give too much. For on the smiles, the thanks we give, our little gestures of appreciation, our neighbors build their philosophy of life.
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
A table-full of welcome!
For me, giving thanks is a sign of appreciation and gratitude that also brings about a deep sense of peace.
At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough.
What does it mean when people applaud? Should I give 'em money? Say thank you? Lift my dress? The lack of applause - that I can respond to.
Be thankful for the smallest blessing and you will deserve to receive greater. Value the least gifts no less than the greatest, and simple graces as especial favors. If you remember the dignity of the Giver, no gift will seem small or mean.
Thank you to all for your prayers and good wishes. It gave me the strength to persevere and warmed my heart.
A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer.
For 't is always fair weather When good fellows get together With a stein on the table and a good song ringing clear.
