“Men shall look on thee and murmur to each other, "Lo! how small
Was the gift, and yet how precious! Friendship's gifts are priceless all."”

“It was not perhaps the warmest friendship in the world, they would not send each other Christmas gift greetings, but they would not murder each other.”

Mario Puzo The Godfather

“Friendship is a precious gift that can't be bought or sold. It's value is greater than mountains made of gold. If you shall ask God for a gift be thankful if he sends not diamonds pearls or riches but the love and trust of friends. It is the friends you can call up at 4 a. m. that matter.”

Marlene Dietrich (1901–1992) German-American actress and singer

“Ah, wasteful woman, she who may
On her sweet self set her own price,
Knowing man cannot choose but pay,
How has she cheapen'd paradise;
How given for nought her priceless gift,
How spoil'd the bread and spill'd the wine,
Which, spent with due, respective thrift,
Had made brutes men, and men divine.”

Coventry Patmore (1823–1896) English poet

“We all posses different gifts and abilities. How we use those gifts determines who we are.”

Brandon Mull (1974) American fiction writer

“He held her as though she was a gift. Given to him in love. Something still and small. Unbearably precious.”

Arundhati Roy (1961) Indian novelist, essayist

“How safe and easy the poor man's life and his humble dwelling! How blind men still are to Heaven's gifts!”
O vitae tuta facultas pauperis angustique lares! o munera nondum intellecta deum!

Marcus Annaeus Lucanus book Pharsalia

“We don't know how God chooses martyrs. We do know that they give us the most precious gift they possess — their very lives.”

Cesar Chavez (1927–1993) American farm worker, labor leader, and civil rights activist

“Peace is our gift to each other.”

Elie Wiesel (1928–2016) writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, and Holocaust survivor

“We pray for the big things and forget to give thanks for the ordinary, small (and yet really not small) gifts.”

Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906–1945) German Lutheran pastor, theologian, dissident anti-Nazi