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It's not always thankless. Let's face it - it's not always thankless. I've gotten a lot of really great recognition and I've worked with amazing people.

It's important that the adults appreciate that young people are capable of doing really astounding work.

I hope kids feel gratitude for what they do have.

Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.

I would so much like young people to have a sense of the gift that they are. Not many of them feel like that.

Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

Youth is seen as everything. You don't know anything when you're young. It's great being older, just having a more balanced perspective. I wake up and realise that what seemed to be important last year no longer is. I'm increasingly grateful for every day.

On reflection, I am always pleasantly surprised when ordinary members of the public stop me in the street to say, 'Thank you,' I guess for making travel and other goods and services affordable to them.

Gratitude is a mark of a noble soul and a refined character. We like to be around those who are grateful.

American readers are so polite; their reactions make it seem like I've received thousands of thank-you notes. It's just lovely, and amazing the things people tell you that have touched them and related to their own lives.