Jawaharlal Nehru

Many unkind people have done kind things. Doing acts of kindness is not the same as occupying kindness, of being kindness.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.

Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.

A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.

I don’t believe in killing whatever the reason!

The difference between winners and losers is that winners do things losers don’t want to do.

It doesn’t matter how long my hair is or what colour my skin is or whether I’m a woman or a man.

This is your life and the clock is ticking.

You’re never given more pain than you can handle. You never, ever get more than you can take.

Our life before moving to Washington was filled with simple joys. Saturdays at soccer games, Sundays at Grandma’s house. And a date night for Barack and me was either dinner or a movie, because as an exhausted mom, I couldn’t stay awake for both. He was still the guy who’d picked me up for our dates in a car that was so rusted out, I could actually see the pavement going by through a hole in the passenger-side door.

Don’t ever confuse the two, your life and your work. The second is only part of the first.

Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them.

I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.

If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that’s his problem. Love and peace are eternal.

You are the daydream I am supposed to have for the rest of my life.