Patience is the most necessary quality for business many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.

The duty of government is to leave commerce to its own capital and credit as well as all other branches of business protecting all in their legal pursuits granting exclusive privileges to none.

Our worldly successes cannot be guaranteed but our ability to achieve spiritual success is entirely up to us thanks to the grace of God. The best advice I know is to give is to give those worldly things your best but never your all - reserve the ultimate hope for the only one who can grant it.

Everyone can identify with a fragrant garden with beauty of sunset with the quiet of nature with a warm and cozy cottage.

A person however learned and qualified in his life's work in whom gratitude is absent is devoid of that beauty of character which makes personality fragrant.

The U.S. tries to provide immigrants who grow up here with a world-class education and imbue them with the can-do attitude that has long defined American innovation.

Always keep that happy attitude. Pretend that you are holding a beautiful fragrant bouquet.

Your talent is your art. It is not to be taken for granted.

All art comes from other art and all immigrants come from other places.

The anger that Uncle Junior has comes from my background. My father was the son of an Italian immigrant and I've seen the fire of the Italian temperament. It can be explosive sometimes in ways that are both funny and tragic.

My public image is so low-key but I get to travel the world and still have an audience and it's really amazing. I don't take that for granted.

The only way to get gay issues off the front pages of Canadian newspapers is to grant gay and lesbian people our full civil equality and leave it alone.

The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.

Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.

By age seven I used to comb my hair for performances just pull my hair up into a bun. Granted it wasn't a very intricate hairstyle. Still to be that responsible and disciplined at age seven is unusual.

The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it grants to our sense of smell by the ferocity with which it assails our sense of hearing.