Michelle Obama

The only other person who has a clue about what this is, the good, the bad, is your partner.

My daughters are the heart of my heart and the center of my world.

When someone is cruel or acts like a bully, you don’t stoop to their level. No, our motto is, when they go low, we go high.

I am sick of all the chaos and the nastiness of our politics. It’s exhausting, and frankly, it’s depressing.

You know, it’s the silliness in me. It has always been there. I love to make people laugh. It comes from my family. My family is funny.

Well, when it comes to social media – there are just times I turn off the world, you know. There are just some times you have to give yourself space to be quiet, which means you’ve got to set those phones down. You can’t be reading all that stuff. I mean, that’s like letting somebody just walk up and slap you, you know? You would never do that. You would never just sit there and go, slap me in the face and I’m good with it. No. So why would you open yourself up to that?

Let us try what love will do.

There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.

Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.

But most of us are apt to settle within ourselves that the man who blocks our way is odious, and not to mind causing him a little of the disgust which his personality excites in ourselves.

The future is purchased by the present.

The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.

Suspicion amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they never fly by twilight.

If you don’t like the weather in New England, just wait a few minutes.

Sir, you have but two topics, yourself and me. I am sick of both.

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Art is the path of the creator to his work.

Every person is a God in embryo. Its only desire is to be born.

Every man is an impossibility until he is born.

You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, we are in that field of all possibilities where we have access to an infinity of choices.