Choose people who lift you up.
Together, we can help make sure that every family that walks into a restaurant can make an easy, healthy choice.
As I reminded my girls, these aren’t problems. These are very high class problems. Because of where Barack and I come from, we just couldn’t sympathize with their… It was like, ‘Girl, you live in the White House. You do not get to complain about this.
It has to be a true partnership, and you have to really really like and respect the person you’re married to because it is a hard road.
I have had to learn that my voice has value. And if I don’t use it, what’s the point of being in the room?
Today Jazz music is performed and listened to by people of all ethnicity, backgrounds, ages and creeds.
When I get up and work out, I’m working out just as much for my girls as I am for me, because I want them to see a mother who loves them dearly, who invests in them, but who also invests in herself. It’s just as much about letting them know as young women that it is okay to put yourself a little higher on your priority list.
Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less.
Who can guess how much industry and providence and affection we have caught from the pantomime of brutes?
We know better than we do. We do not yet possess ourselves…
Sir Joshua would have been glad to take her portrait; and he would have had an easier task than the historian at least in this, that he would not have had to represent the truth of change –only to give stability to one beautiful moment.
Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing.
I always like people who have developed long and hard, particularly through introspection and a lot of dedication. I think that what they arrive at is, usually, deeper and more beautiful than the person who seems to have that ability and fluidity from the beginning.
I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.
Beauty is the mark God sets on virtue. Every natural action is graceful; every heroic act is also decent, and causes the place and the bystanders to shine.
Rituals are important. Nowadays it’s hip not to be married. I’m not interested in being hip.
Let us work without theorizing, tis the only way to make life endurable.
After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.
Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem to be confidences or sides hidden from all else and unmistakably meant for his ear; the profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader; the profound thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until it is discovered by an equal mind and heart.
Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.
Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.
He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and so recur habitually to the mind.
