Michelle Obama

I learned in those eight years is that home is where you make it, and we were in the White House for eight years, but it wasn’t the house. It was us in it. It was our value and our love for each other.

I stopped believing in love at first sight. I think you go through that wonderful love stage, but when it gets hard, you need a little bit more.

I love my husband, but my girlfriends are my sanity.

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.

When you’ve worked hard, and done well, and walked through that doorway of opportunity, you do not slam it shut behind you. You reach back, and you give other folks the same chances that helped you succeed.

Courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own.

The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances. He plies the slow, unhonored, and unpaid task of observation. He is the world’s eye.

There is but one step from the Academy to the Fad.

I’m not a teacher: only a fellow-traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead – ahead of myself as well as you.

The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.

When one has tasted it Watermelon he knows what the angels eat.

I could not find the world if I searched ten years. I’ve forgotten the road by which I came.

Opportunity makes a thief.

Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.

Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be; whereas Ignorance is a blind giant who, let him but wax unbound, would make it a sport to seize the pillars that hold up the long-wrought fabric of human good, and turn all the places of joy as dark as a buried Babylon.

Honor bespeaks worth. Confidence begets trust. Service brings satisfaction. Cooperation proves the quality of leadership.

I am stronger than my fear.

Sooner or later that which is now life shall be poetry, and every fair and manly trait shall add a richer strain to the song.

Worthless people love only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.

Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.