“Every day I've got to be thankful that I am alive, and you never know - the cliche is, I guess, you could get hit by a bus tomorrow, so you'd better be at peace with whatever you got going at the moment.”

“He enjoys much who is thankful for little.”

“I've got tapes that I'm so thankful that my father made - old reel-to-reel tapes. I've got a ton of those things at home. He kept those like fine diamonds, I mean he kept them, you know, in a box and was very, very careful of them, you know.”

“I'm thankful for weird people out there 'cause they're some of the most creative people.”

“I am thankful that geniuses and artists and good people, no matter how hard it is, will eventually be recognized. I am doubly thankful that also goes for idiots.”

“Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.”

“I am thankful, of course, for the prize and thankful to God for each story, each idea, each word, each day.”

“If I can do one hundredth part for the Indian that Mrs. Stowe did for the Negro, I will be thankful.”

“I'm thankful to get the opportunity to direct. I hope I don't mess it up.”

“I wouldn't change anything. I've made mistakes, but thanks to those mistakes, I've learned.”

“I feel so thankful that I'm able to be a part of something that I love to wake up and run to work every day.”

“Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.”

“Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders.”

“Thank God we're living in a country where the sky's the limit, the stores are open late and you can shop in bed thanks to television.”

“And I'm very surprised that all this stuff actually worked out to where I could have a career in film, gain the benefit of my education, and be thankful that I was able to break into my craft as an actor.”

“Look folks, we know who built this country and we know who is going to rebuild it. It's you. Instead of vilifying you, we should be thanking you. We owe you.”

“I'm thankful for Sarah Palin's vice presidential bid, which taught us that Alaska is not in a box off the coast of California.”

“I realize how unique my path has been. And I'm thankful for that.”

“I'm so thankful for the Internet because actors and singers and performers now have a way to connect with their fans on a very personal level which I think is quite special.”

“It feels great to win and I can't be more thankful to the Lord for walking me through every step. God was and is so faithful every time.”

“We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.”