Michelle Obama

It’s hard to have it all. And if you’re compromising through one phase of your journey, you’re not giving it all up, you’re compromising for that phase

When they go low, we go high.

It’s powerful to have strong men but what does that strength mean?

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

I have had to learn that my voice has value. And if I don’t use it, what’s the point of being in the room?

Do not bring people in your life who weigh you down. And trust your instincts … good relationships feel good. They feel right. They don’t hurt. They’re not painful. That’s not just with somebody you want to marry, but it’s with the friends that you choose. It’s with the people you surround yourselves with.

The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions.

I have never seen a thin person drinking Diet Coke.

If you are chronically down, it is a lifelong fight to keep from sinking.

I think Viagra is wonderful if you need it, if you have medical issues, if you’ve had surgery. I’ve just never needed it. Frankly, I wouldn’t mind if there were an anti-Viagra, something with the opposite effect. I’m not bragging. I’m just lucky. I don’t need it.

I have a form of Parkinson’s disease, which I don’t like. My legs don’t move when my brain tells them to. It’s very frustrating.

I want to change the stigma of crazy, of mental health – period.

The patient is not likely to recover who makes the doctor his heir.

Need a whole new syntax for fatigue on days like this.

The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that’s making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?

And every person can benefit from talking to somebody. I’m the most anti-medication person, but some people need medicine, and there was a time where I needed some too.

In the medical community, you would never deny a diabetic his insulin ever. But for some reasons, when someone needs a serotonin inhibitor, they’re immediately crazy or something. And I don’t know, it’s a very interesting double standard that I often don’t have the ability to talk about but I certainly feel no shame about.

When individuals have access to the information about their bodies they can begin to change outcomes.

I keep healthy and I’m always very active and always have been so. I don’t really see any signs of aging yet. Music keeps you young.

You have good days and bad days, and depression’s something that, y’know, is always with you.

For four to six months at a time, I would barely eat. I lived on a diet of Melba toast, carrots, and black coffee.