Choose people who lift you up.
Being president doesn’t change who you are it reveals who you are.
Because when you have the nuclear codes at your fingertips and the military in your command, you can’t make snap decisions. You can’t have a thin skin or a tendency to lash out. You need to be steady and measured and well-informed.
People ignore the thing they have the most power over. I know so many people who will go to a protest and do something big on an issue. But they won’t deal with that issue in their home.
Tweeting and social media – that is a powerful weapon that we just hand over to little kids. You know, a ten-year-old. Yo, tell it like it is. And it’s like, no you don’t. You need to think and spell it right and have good grammar.
I always sort of felt like the eight years that Barack was president, it was sort of like having the good parent at home. You know, the responsible parent, the one who told you to eat your carrots and go to bed on time.
How hard you work matters more than how much you make.
Help a man against his will and you do the same as murder him.
Man is God’s highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.
None of the affections have been noted to fascinate and bewitch but envy.
The white American man makes the white American woman maybe not superfluous but just a little kind of decoration. Not really important to turning around the wheels of the state. Well the black American woman has never been able to feel that way. No black American man at any time in our history in the United States has been able to feel that he didn’t need that black woman right against him, shoulder to shoulder – in that cotton field, on the auction block, in the ghetto, wherever.
One gains universal applause who mingles the useful with the agreeable, at once delighting and instructing the reader.
If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him.
The rain comes and what bends will rise. It is a purposeful journey.
You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man’s form of genius in you, and to suffer the slavery of being a girl.
It is not where you start but how high you aim that matters for success.
That is the whole secret of successful fighting. Get your enemy at a disadvantage; and never, on any account, fight him on equal terms.
Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.
Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted… but to weigh and consider.
Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends… Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.
Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
Pit race against race, religion against religion, prejudice against prejudice. Divide and conquer! We must not let that happen here.
