Michelle Obama

What truly made me fall in love with Barack Obama was his character.

No country can ever truly flourish if it stifles the potential of its women and deprives itself of the contributions of half its citizens.

Be passionate about something and lean to that strength.

Strong men, men who are truly role models, don’t need to put down women to make themselves feel powerful.

When girls are educated, their countries become stronger and more prosperous.

As I reminded my girls, these aren’t problems. These are very high class problems. Because of where Barack and I come from, we just couldn’t sympathize with their… It was like, ‘Girl, you live in the White House. You do not get to complain about this.

The seven deadly sins… food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven millstones from Man’s neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the millstones are lifted.

All colors will agree in the dark.

We all really basically have a lot of magic … it’s only those of us that choose to accept it that really understand it.

Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.

Why should I be unhappy? Every parcel of my being is in full bloom.

Man was made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.

I have lived some thirty-odd years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength. True power is within and available to you now.

Best friend, my well-spring in the wilderness!

I hate the irreverent rabble and keep them far from me.

Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each. Let them be your only diet, drink, and botanical medicines.

There is no luck in literary reputation. They who make up the final verdict upon every book are not the partial and noisy readers of the hour when it appears; but a court as of angels, a public not to be bribed, not to be entreated, and not to be overawed, decides upon every man’s title to fame.

It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

The billiard table is better than the doctor.

I talk democracy to these men and women. I tell them that they have the vote, and that theirs is the kingdom and the power and the glory. I say to them You are supreme: exercise your power. They say, That’s right: tell us what to do; and I tell them. I say Exercise our vote intelligently by voting for me. And they do. That’s democracy; and a splendid thing it is too for putting the right men in the right place.