Instead of seeing these children for the blessings that they are we are measuring them only by the standard of whether they will be future deficits or assets for our nation's competitive needs.

Friendship's the privilege of private men for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.

True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune to keep him is a blessing.

Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

The Law of God reaches into every area of life and it brings about incredible blessing and incredible freedom.

The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Freedom from care and anxiety of mind is a blessing which I apprehend such people enjoy in higher perfection than most others and is of the utmost consequence.

But it wasn't until I graduated from Texas A & M University and joined the United States Air Force flying C-130's all around the globe that I truly appreciated the blessings of freedom.

Freedom is not a gift nor does it simply exist for us to have but rather it is a sacred duty and its blessed yield of hope is born from none other than the blood of the innocent.

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must like men undergo the fatigue of supporting it.

If we eat any food or drink any beverage we must recite a blessing over them before and after.

Neither does man have gills for living in a water environment yet it is not sinful to explore the depths of the oceans in search of food or other blessings.

From the simple stringing together of lemon garlands for the goddess Durga to dividing the prasadam or blessed foods for the children first I came to associate food not only with feminity but also with purity and divinity.

No matter how famous and established they were or however blessed they were with great songs or long careers if they lived alone they lived alone. That's not the way I wanted to live prior to the tour or after.

It was a mixed blessing to have famous parents. It was tough to go to auditions and be bad since I couldn't be anonymous.