Leo Tolstoy

If you look for perfection, you’ll never be content.

It’s all God’s will: you can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle.

Love those you hate you.

Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed.

How can one be well…when one suffers morally?

In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.

The only true test of values, either of men or of things, is that of their ability to make the world a better place in which to live.

Little difficulties are made to swell until they fill our horizon while the real big blessings of life are dwindled down to nothing.

The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.

Power begins with having a crystal-clear view of reality and what each and every person in your life is driven by.

Common sense needs to be more common.

Forgiveness is just another name for freedom.

You can’t change what you don’t acknowledge.

Enough or not…it will have to do.

If I’d known I’d live to be a 100 I’d have taken much better care of myself.

Life is not an easy matter… You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.

Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before–more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle.

The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.

2 is not equal to 3, not even for large values of 2.

Let us not forget: I didn’t just wake up First Lady… I mean, I went to law school, I practised law, I worked for the city, I ran a nonprofit (and) I was an executive at a hospital. I’ve been in the world. I’ve worked in every sector, and you don’t do that without coming up against some stuff. You know, having your feelings hurt, having people say things about you that aren’t true… Life hits you, so over the course of living, you learn how to protect yourself in it. You learn to take in what you need and get rid of the stuff that’s clearly not true.

I grew up in a very masculine environment. So I was around a lot of men, my brothers and their friends. There was just a lot of guys around.