Michelle Obama

No country can ever truly flourish if it stifles the potential of its women and deprives itself of the contributions of half its citizens.

Good relationships feel good. They feel right. They don’t hurt.

Changing the big picture takes time.. and the best things to do is focus on the things that we can make in our lives if we’re doing all that. That becomes the collage of real change.

What I notice about men, all men, is that their order is me, my family, God is in there somewhere, but me is first.

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.

I will always be engaged in some way in public service and public life. The minute I left my corporate-law firm to work for the city, I never looked back. I’ve always felt very alive using my gifts and talents to help other people. I sleep better at night. I’m happier.

The more you learn the more you realize how much you don’t know.

The most crucial use of knowledge and education is to understand the importance of developing a good heart.

I was a great student. I was good at everything.

I mean, look, teachers don’t do their job for the money, obviously, because we pay them ridiculously little amounts for what they put in. Most of them come out of their own pocket for materials and things to help the children and all that.

All students can learn and succeed, but not on the same day in the same way.

The more you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.

But before any great things are accomplished, a memorable change must be made in the system of Education and knowledge must become so general as to raise the lower ranks of Society nearer to the higher. The Education of a Nation, instead of being confined to a few schools & Universities, for the instruction of the few, must become the National Care and expence, for the information of the Many.

Education not just preparation for life, but part if life itself-a continuous art.

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

To educate the peasantry, three things are needed: schools, schools and schools.

Education is the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.

By making college unaffordable and student loans unbearable, we risk deterring our best and brightest from pursuing higher education and securing a good paying job.

Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.

College is part of the American Dream. It shouldn’t be part of a financial nightmare for families.