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Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.

I'm going to work so that it's a pure guts race at the end, and if it is, I am the only one who can win it.

We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what's in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.

The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all direction.

If God only used perfect people, nothing would get done. God will use anybody if you're available.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

I have an intense obsession with making films. I not only love to make films, I perhaps need to make films.

It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually.

If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones.

It is necessary to help others, not only in our prayers, but in our daily lives. If we find we cannot help others, the least we can do is to desist from harming them.

There exists only the present instant... a Now which always and without end is itself new. There is no yesterday nor any tomorrow, but only Now, as it was a thousand years ago and as it will be a thousand years hence.

About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

Only the knife knows what goes on in the heart of a pumpkin.

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

What is their potential for evil; what is their potential for wickedness? That's the only time that those characters become interesting to watch.

And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.

Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear.

I can do most anything and not have a problem with it. The only time I have negative attention is when I run naked through the streets brandishing a handgun.

I do not at all understand the mystery of grace - only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.

You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.

If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank.

In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.

The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such.

When my mother had to get dinner for 8 she'd just make enough for 16 and only serve half.

As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.

There are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena.

Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.