Michelle Obama

We’re so afraid of each other… Colour, wealth, these things that don’t really matter still play too much of a role in how we see one another. And it’s sad, because the thing that least defines us is the colour of our skin.

If we don’t teach our young girls to speak at an early age, that doesn’t just happen.

Today Jazz music is performed and listened to by people of all ethnicity, backgrounds, ages and creeds.

The arts are not just a nice thing to have or to do if there is free time or if one can afford it. Rather, paintings and poetry, music and fashion, design and dialogue, they all define who we are as a people and provide an account of our history for the next generation.

You don’t want to be with a boy who is too stupid to appreciate a smart young lady. There is no boy who is cute enough or interesting enough to stop you from getting your education.

Empower yourselves with a good education, then get out there and use that education to build a country worthy of your boundless promise.

Perhaps man is the only being that can properly be called idle.

Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.

Standing on the doorstep of desire, I hold this bouquet like a gun and these vows like a petition for the death penalty.

If no mistake have you made, yet losing you are … a different game you should play.

No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.

As the Spanish proverb says, He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry the wealth of the Indies with him. So it is in travelling; a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.

The wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy.

Here undoubtedly lies the chief poetic energy: -in the force of imagination that pierces or exalts the solid fact, instead of floating among cloud-pictures.

The less government we have the better.

Never be bored, and you will never be boring.

One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

If you develop rules, never have more than ten.

Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.

People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy.

Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.