Michelle Obama

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.

Oftentimes, it’s the way we react to change that is the thing that determines the overall experience.

The Affordable Care Act isn’t Barack’s legacy, it’s the country’s legacy.

I always touch people, because I know that there’s a level of anxiety, people are teary or they’re nervous, and I just try to physically hold them and bring them down and say: ‘We’re here. I’m just Michelle.’

Empower yourselves with a good education, then get out there and use that education to build a country worthy of your boundless promise.

I never cut class. I loved getting A’s, I liked being smart. I liked being on time. I thought being smart is cooler than anything in the world.

The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.

A jay hasnt got any more principle than a Congressman. A jay will lie, a jay will steal, a jay will deceive, a jay will betray; and four times out of five, a jay will go back on his solemnest promise.

He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Flow with whatever may happen, and let your mind be free: Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.

If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself.

When the romance is gone, if it’s always you left searching for it, maybe it’s time to stop looking, and start searching for someone new, and start a new romantic journey.

Laughter is the greatest weapon we have and we, as humans, use it the least.

The trouble with you Chicago people is that you think you are the best people down here, whereas you are merely the most numerous.

It isn’t safe to sit in judgment upon another person’s illusion when you are not on the inside. While you are thinking it is a dream, he may be knowing it is a planet.

We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.

If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill came always together, who would escape hanging?

New arts destroy the old.

It is the greatest of all advantages to enjoy no advantage at all.

I think probably kindness is my number one attribute in a human being. I’ll put it before any of the things like courage or bravery or generosity or anything else.

Nakedness is uncomely, as well in mind as body, and it addeth no small reverence to men’s manners and actions if they be not altogether open. Therefore set it down: That a habit of secrecy is both politic and moral.