Michelle Obama

Together, we can help make sure that every family that walks into a restaurant can make an easy, healthy choice.

People in the beauty community don’t like copycats, so I think it’s important to stay true to who you are and people will stay your customer.

Always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals.

Success is only meaningful and enjoyable if it feels like your own.

When I hear people say, ‘you run,’ it’s part of the problem. We still didn’t get ‘yes we can’ right. It’s not ‘yes you can,’ it’s ‘yes we can.’ And until we get that right, it doesn’t matter who runs.

Success isn’t about how your life looks to others. It’s about how it feels to you. We realized that being successful isn’t about being impressive, it’s about being inspired. That’s what it means to be true to yourself.

It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.

We feel at first as if some opportunities of kindness and sympathy were lost, but learn afterward that any pure grief is ample recompense for all. That is, if we are faithful; for a spent grief is but sympathy with the soul that disposes events, and is as natural as the resin of Arabian trees. Only nature has a right to grieve perpetually, for she only is innocent. Soon the ice will melt, and the blackbirds sing along the river which he frequented, as pleasantly as ever. The same everlasting serenity will appear in this face of God, and we will not be sorrowful, if he is not.

The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly.

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.

When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.

As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.

Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.

The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.

I can live for two months on a good compliment.

I want to be free; to escape. I use my pen as oars; the paper as my boat. I fill these pages to keep me afloat. I ride the waves of turmoil, so I can paddle away to calmer seas.

Then spare the rod and spoil the child.

If you value a man’s regard, strive with him. As to liking, you like your newspaper – and despise it.

You sold me a dream and it shattered. I didn’t know how to put it back together again. So instead, I’m lovingly gluing those fragments anew with seams of gold, creating a vibrant new dream, rendering the broken strong and more than ever, breathtakingly beautiful.