Michelle Obama

I was loved dearly by my father but I was never so precious that he didn’t think that I could be in there right at the table.

You have to get that mom face right, like, ‘Oh, did that happen? Tell me more.’ Trying not to react so you get the good information. I tried to tell Sasha and Malia, ‘Do not go to other 14-year-olds for information, ’cause all you all are dumb. Talk to me.’ It’s like, ‘All of you are dumb. You know nothing. Love you!’ So, let’s just talk about it. Don’t ask Olivia what she thinks about sex. She doesn’t know!

The realities are that, you know, as a black man, you know, Barack can get shot going to the gas station, you know.

Together, we can help make sure that every family that walks into a restaurant can make an easy, healthy choice.

I always touch people, because I know that there’s a level of anxiety, people are teary or they’re nervous, and I just try to physically hold them and bring them down and say: ‘We’re here. I’m just Michelle.’

I’ve never had the passion for politics.

Golf is a good walk spoiled.

The partnership of mind and matter is one which has existed since the beginning of time and cannot be dissolved.

If you genuinely want something, don’t wait for it — teach yourself to be impatient.

You have to name it to claim it.

I have lived too long to cherish many illusions about the essential high-mindedness of men when brought into stark confrontation with the issue of control over their security, and their property interests.

In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall.

My philosophy is to have a really good time and never to let anything stop me from doing what I want to do.

Chaos is a friend of mine.

I accept chaos, I’m not sure whether it accepts me.

I hope that while so many people are out smelling the flowers, someone is taking the time to plant some.

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

The genius of the American people is Self-Reliance.

You are the daydream I am supposed to have for the rest of my life.

I’ve always thought that each person invented himself… for whatever reason, through whatever circumstance, through whatever he is gone through… that we are each a figment of our own imagination… And some people have a greater ability to imagine than others.

Every loss of life is terrible.