Michelle Obama

I learned in those eight years is that home is where you make it, and we were in the White House for eight years, but it wasn’t the house. It was us in it. It was our value and our love for each other.

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

At the root of this dilemma is the way we view mental health in this country. Whether an illness affects your heart, your leg or your brain, it’s still an illness, and there should be no distraction.

I wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves. And I watch my daughters, two beautiful, intelligent, black young women playing with their dogs on the White House lawn.

Women in particular need to keep an eye on their physical and mental health, because if we’re scurrying to and from appointments and errands, we don’t have a lot of time to take care of ourselves. We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own ‘to do’ list.

Just do what works for you, because there will always be someone who think diffenrently…

Love is knowing every goodbye has a hello on the horizon.

I’m embarrassed to say a good chick flick – I’m an old romantic.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

Hard knocks have a place and value, but hard thinking goes farther in less time.

You are mine, and that means I am on your side even when no one else is.

It was like being in the eye of a hurricane. You’d wake up in a concert and think, Wow, how did I get here?

Credulity is the man’s weakness but the child’s strength.

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

Die, but do not retreat.

You’ve got to teach youngsters the difference between right and wrong, but you shouldn’t try to poke it down their throats. Let them ask the questions and then give them the answers.

Anything is better than lies and deceit!

This is the only reason Greenfield Village exists-to give us a sense of unity with our people through the generations, and to convey the inspiration of American genius to our young men. As a nation we have not depended so much on rare or occasional genius as on the general resourcefulness of our people. That is our true genius, and I am hoping that Greenfield Village will serve that.

Pardon me if I haunt you tonight.

A h** neva gets cold

Grief never mended no broken bones.