When I was on Broadway I got really sick with walking pneumonia. I decided not to take my health for granted anymore and make it a priority. The great thing is the pounds just started to fall off.

I have not been that wise. Health I have taken for granted. Love I have demanded perhaps too much and too often. As for money I have only realized its true worth when I didn't have it.

Maturity - among other things the unclouded happiness of the child at play who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.

How quickly we forget God's great deliverances in our lives. How easily we take for granted the miracles he performed in our past.

I have never made but one prayer to God a very short one: 'O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.

No I think the future of humanity will be like the past we'll do what we've always done and there will still be human beings. Granted there will always be people doing something different and there are a lot of possibilities.

Often the magical elements in my books are standing in for elements of the real world the small and magical-in-their-own-right sorts of things that we take for granted and no longer pay attention to like the bonds of friendship that entwine our own lives with those of other people and places.

I keep my friends as misers do their treasure because of all the things granted us by wisdom none is greater or better than friendship.

Today hundreds of millions dwell in freedom from the Baltic to the Adriatic from the Western Approaches to the Aegean. And while we must never take this for granted the first purpose of the European Union - to secure peace - has been achieved and we should pay tribute to all those in the EU alongside Nato who made that happen.

Freedom granted only when it is known beforehand that its effects will be beneficial is not freedom.