Yes, we can
[on Michelle] After about 15 years I finally figured out that she’s always right!
You can’t deny women their basic rights and pretend it’s about your religious freedom’. If you don’t like birth control, don’t use it. Religious freedom doesn’t mean that you can force others to live by your own beliefs.
Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
And in my own life, in my own small way, I’ve tried to give back to this country that has given me so much. That’s why I left a job at a law firm for a career in public service, working to empower young people to volunteer in their communities. Because I believe that each of us – no matter what our age or background or walk of life – each of us has something to contribute to the life of this nation.
What Michelle has done is to remind me every day of the virtues of order.
Michelle’s not somebody who wants to be deeply involved in policy development. She’s my closest friend and my most important adviser. But I don’t anticipate her sitting around the table trying to figure out tax policy. She’ll probably choose a project that she cares about. But her number-one priority is going to be these kids, and making sure that their transition is one in which the wonderful normalcy that they have is maintained.
You will have failures in your life, but it is what you do during those valleys that will determine the heights of your peaks.
The best way to get a better answer is to start asking a better question.
Those who lose visualize the penalties of failure. Those who win visualize the rewards of success.
Sometimes understanding other people’s problems is the key to finding opportunities.
Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
You’ve got to say, “I think that if I keep working at this and want it badly enough, I can have it.” It’s called perseverance.
Profitability comes from loyalty, productivity, and having a character base from which to work.
You’re a fighter. Look at everything you’ve overcome. Don’t give up now.
No wise man ever wished to be younger.
The greatest effort is not concerned with results.
A habit is like a cable: we weave a thread of it everyday, and at last we cannot break it – so we must form good, positive, and productive habits.
If you can dream it, you can do it. Your limits are all within yourself.
Don’t be trapped by dogma-which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.
Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free: Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.
