Death is really a great blessing for humanity without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not only hamper and discourage the young but they would themselves lack sufficient stimulus to be creative.

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

One of the greatest titles in the world is parent and one of the biggest blessings in the world is to have parents to call mom and dad.

Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven.

A sense of blessedness comes from a change of heart not from more blessings.

Change like sunshine can be a friend or a foe a blessing or a curse a dawn or a dusk.

Society in every state is a blessing but government even in its best stage is but a necessary evil in its worst state an intolerable one.

Our prayers should be for blessings in general for God knows best what is good for us.

People see you as an object not as a person and they project a set of expectations onto you. People who don't have it think beauty is a blessing but actually it sets you apart.

If you don't die of thirst there are blessings in the desert. You can be pulled into limitlessness which we all yearn for or you can do the beauty of minutiae the scrimshaw of tiny and precise. The sky is your ocean and the crystal silence will uplift you like great gospel music or Neil Young.

With my talent I can make people laugh and give them another attitude about life. What a blessing that is for me.

The compulsion to do good is an innate American trait. Only North Americans seem to believe that they always should may and actually can choose somebody with whom to share their blessings. Ultimately this attitude leads to bombing people into the acceptance of gifts.

Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.

Be true to yourself help others make each day your masterpiece make friendship a fine art drink deeply from good books - especially the Bible build a shelter against a rainy day give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day.

Next month I will celebrate my 30th anniversary of marriage with my beautiful bride Vicki. Our marriage has been a blessing. I have gained even more respect for the institution over the past 3 decades and will defend it against attack.

I know that my grandfather is 92 years old. And he has seen this country evolve in amazing ways. He looks at South Carolina and he says wow what an amazing state that we have the blessing to live within because of the evolution.

You have to wait for a big star to come in and generate interest on a project and now that has become me which is an amazing blessing.