I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.
Not what we have but what we enjoy constitutes our abundance.
I do not so much rejoice that God hath made me to be a Queen, as to be a Queen over so thankful a people.
Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
The whole world is a series of miracles, but we're so used to them we call them ordinary things.
Talent is God-given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.
Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.
He who helped you when you were in trouble ought not afterwards be despised by you.
We've been remarkably lucky in that we've been free to make the movies we've wanted to make the way we've wanted to make them.
I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
The easiest way for us to gain happiness is to learn how to want the things we already have.
We should periodically pause to reflect on the fact that we will not live forever and that this day could be our last.
