When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

I can't tell you if genius is hereditary because heaven has granted me no offspring.

The question is how to bring a work of imagination out of one language that was just as taken-for-granted by the persons who used it as our language is by ourselves. Nothing strange about it.

I'm still really close with everyone at home and their parents - and their brothers and sisters. I was so so so lucky to grow up as part of a community and I don't take that for granted. I try very hard to stay part of it.

When I was on Broadway I got really sick with walking pneumonia. I decided not to take my health for granted anymore and make it a priority. The great thing is the pounds just started to fall off.

I have not been that wise. Health I have taken for granted. Love I have demanded perhaps too much and too often. As for money I have only realized its true worth when I didn't have it.

Maturity - among other things the unclouded happiness of the child at play who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.

How quickly we forget God's great deliverances in our lives. How easily we take for granted the miracles he performed in our past.

I have never made but one prayer to God a very short one: 'O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.

No I think the future of humanity will be like the past we'll do what we've always done and there will still be human beings. Granted there will always be people doing something different and there are a lot of possibilities.

Often the magical elements in my books are standing in for elements of the real world the small and magical-in-their-own-right sorts of things that we take for granted and no longer pay attention to like the bonds of friendship that entwine our own lives with those of other people and places.

I keep my friends as misers do their treasure because of all the things granted us by wisdom none is greater or better than friendship.

Today hundreds of millions dwell in freedom from the Baltic to the Adriatic from the Western Approaches to the Aegean. And while we must never take this for granted the first purpose of the European Union - to secure peace - has been achieved and we should pay tribute to all those in the EU alongside Nato who made that happen.

Freedom granted only when it is known beforehand that its effects will be beneficial is not freedom.

Freedom does not come without a price. We may sometimes take for granted the many liberties we enjoy in America but they have all been earned through the ultimate sacrifice paid by so many of the members of our armed forces.

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted all else follows.

In the long history of the world only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it.