Babe Ruth

I love life, but not everything in it. I love people, but not all of them. I love myself, but not everything about me.

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.

Instead of being ashamed of what you’ve been through, be proud of what you have overcome!

My experience is that the teachers we need most are the people we’re living with right now.

I believe that everything in life happens for a reason.

Are you doing what you’re doing today because you want to do it or because it’s what you were doing yesterday?

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.

The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of ungraceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying.

I’d never met a woman I considered as intelligent as me. That sounds bigheaded, but every woman I met was either a dolly-chick, or a sort of screwed-up intellectual chick. And of course, in the field I was in, I didn’t meet many intellectual people anyway. I always had this dream of meeting an artist, an artist girl who would be like me. And I thought it was a myth, but then I met Yoko and that was it.

[On leaving Brooklyn] I left the day I graduated high school.

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.

Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!

I take my only exercise acting as a pallbearer at the funerals of my friends who exercise regularly.

If the doctor told me I had six minutes to live, I’d type a little faster.

Man has to suffer. When he has no real afflictions, he invents some.