Frankly writing poetry for children is plain old fun and I consider myself blessed to have such a delightful career.

God has blessed me. I've been given a lot. I'm at peace with myself. It's time to give back.

Blessed be God that Thou hast filled the soul of Thy servant with joy and peace in believing.

Let peace descending from her native heaven bid her olives spring amidst the joyful nations and plenty in league with commerce scatter blessings from her copious hand!

Now for my own case I bless the Lord that for all that hath been said of me my conscience doth not condemn me. I do not say I am free of sin but I am at peace with God through a slain Mediator and I believe that there is no salvation but only in Christ.

Four years of Jimmy Carter gave us two titanic Reagan landslides peace and prosperity for eight blessed years - and even a third term for his feckless vice president George H.W. Bush.

On balance my life has been a constant stream of blessings rather than disappointments and failures and tragedies. I wish I had been re-elected. I think I could have kept our country at peace. I think I could have consolidated what we achieved at Camp David with a treaty between Israel and the Palestinians.

We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.

I think God's really blessed me with patience. I'm good with a lot of things going on at once.

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains losses and disappointments but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.