“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.”

Funny… I still can’t believe in God.” “Does that matter now?”…”He believes in you.

The virtue of achievement is victory over oneself. Those who know this can never know defeat.

Nothing is more limiting than a closed circle of acquaintanceship where every avenue of conversation has been explored and social exchanges are fixed in a known routine.

Some temptations cannot be fought. One must close one’s mind and fly from them

We cannot measure Divine Providence by the yardstick of human mentality.

Hell is the place where one has ceased to hope.

Religions are many, reason is one, we are all brothers.

You are extraordinarily attractive to women. And your greatest charm is that you do not realise it.

Above all am I convinced of the need, irrevocable and inescapable, of every human heart, for God. No matter how we try to escape, to lose ourselves in restless seeking, we cannot separate ourselves from our divine source. There is no substitute for God.

[Once plans for each eventuality are resolved, further] Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, but only saps today of its strength.

That is life… to begin again when everything is lost!

Even if my country remains in war with yours. . .remember. . . i am not your enemy.

I would just like to say thank you to each one of my fans for supporting me all these years and continuing to come to the concerts and buy my music. I owe them everything.

Send thank-you cards and give standing ovations. Be pro-stuff, not just anti-stuff.

I prefer to do right and get no thanks than to do wrong and receive no punishment.

If someone gives me a to-do list, I say ‘thank you, this is nice.’ One needs things to throw in the wastebasket.

Otrera stayed dead the second time,” Kinzie said, batting her eyes. “We have to thank you for that. If you ever need a new girlfriend…well, I think you’d look great in an iron collar and an orange jumpsuit.” Percy couldn’t tell if she was kidding or not. He politely thanked her and changed seats.

The country of the tourist pamphlet always is another country, an embarrassing abstraction of the desirable that, thank God, does not exist on this planet, where there are always ants and bad smells and empty Coca-Cola bottles to keep the grubby finger-print of reality upon the beautiful.

The biggest thing, and what I told some of the partners in the summit, was me thanking them for their constant support with everything that I’ve been through the last couple years on and off the court.

I want to thank all the women who have worn my clothes, the famous and the unknown, who have been so faithful to me and given me so much joy.