This is a land of immigrants, and most come here for opportunity, a second chance.

I'm sick of seeing the immigrants in the hotels and the Italians who sleep in cars. This is the racist country.

You discover how confounding the world is when you try to draw it. You look at a car, and you try to see its car-ness, and you're like an immigrant to your own world. You don't have to travel to encounter weirdness. You wake up to it.

America isn't Congress. America isn't Washington. America is the striving immigrant who starts a business, or the mom who works two low-wage jobs to give her kid a better life. America is the union leader and the CEO who put aside their differences to make the economy stronger.

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

I lived for 15 years in Los Angeles, and I still can't believe that the handsomest man in the world, Cary Grant, and the greatest performer in the world, Fred Astaire, and Johnny Carson, one after another - they were all in my home at different times. I celebrated my 50th birthday with them. Unforgettable.

The best migrant is the migrant who does not come.

The more often we see the things around us - even the beautiful and wonderful things - the more they become invisible to us. That is why we often take for granted the beauty of this world: the flowers, the trees, the birds, the clouds - even those we love. Because we see things so often, we see them less and less.

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.

I think we take it for granted that if you are with your husband after 30 years, then he is the love of your life.

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.

But we have seen amazing things, good and bad, happen in this game, so you can never take anything for granted. I certainly don't. There are no guarantees, whether it is good bad or indifferent you just work hard to push the odds in your favour as regards myself and the team.

We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.

Grant me courage to serve others; for in service there is true life.

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.

Let us record the atoms as they fall upon the mind in the order in which they fall, let us trace the pattern, however disconnected and incoherent in appearance, which each sight or incident scores upon the consciousness. Let us not take it for granted that life exists more fully in what is commonly thought big than in what is commonly thought small.

Grow your relationship in the presence of God and always pray for guidance. You can't take love for granted. Idolize your relationship and keep nurturing the love you have for each other. It's critical for both hearts to make an effort to produce entertainment for the soul. A happy heart brings a lot of joy, and those pleasures create unforgettable memories that will last a lifetime.

Maybe the answers weren't important. Maybe it was the asking which mattered. Not taking anything for granted. Maybe that's what stopped you growing old.

She walked to the door with her pile of laundry. "Oh, milord? Just in case my lady is too delicate to speak of such things, and since you'll be washing yourself. Do make sure to clean well under your foreskin. A lady's perfumed garden ought to be fragrant, but a gentleman's oak should smell only of soap.

But it was when you started taking the most basic things for granted that life decided to teach you that you're an ungrateful idiot.

In my small way, I preserved and catalogued, and dipped into the vast ocean of learning that awaited, knowing all the time that the life of one man was insufficient for even the smallest part of the wonders that lay within. It is cruel that we are granted the desire to know, but denied the time to do so properly. We all die frustrated; it is the greatest lesson we have to learn.

No longer do I sing, dance or draw pictures; but God has granted me the gift to do them all in my stories.