Michelle Obama

[on Donald Trump] I can’t believe that I’m saying that a candidate for president of the United States has bragged about sexually assaulting women.

Men don’t even ask that question, ‘What if it doesn’t happen?’ That’s what we do. That is a behavior of our gender. Speak up in all that tables we’re in.

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

Don’t be afraid. Be focused. Be determined. Be hopeful. Be empowered.

You can’t make decisions based on fear and the possibility of what might happen.

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.

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.

What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.

The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls: in short, behaving as if you were in Heaven, where there are no third-class carriages, and one soul is as good as another.

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.

As the physically weak man can make himself strong by careful and patient training, so the man of weak thoughts can make them strong by exercising himself in right thinking.

Our faith comes in moments… yet there is a depth in those brief moments which constrains us to ascribe more reality to them than to all other experiences.

Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.

Today, you can decide to walk in freedom. You can choose to walk differently. You can walk as a free person, enjoying every step.

Murder in the murderer is no such ruinous thought as poets and romancers will have it; it does not unsettle him, or fright him from his ordinary notice of trifles; it is an act quite easy to be contemplated.

Most people do not pray; they only beg.

A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk.

There is a difference between being convinced and being stubborn.

All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.