Choose people who lift you up.
It’s powerful to have strong men but what does that strength mean?
Barack didn’t just talk about hope because he thought it was just a nice slogan to get votes. I mean, he and I and so many believe that if you – what else do you have if you don’t have hope?
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.
When I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don’t invest any energy in them, because I know who I am.
I want someone with the proven strength to persevere, someone who knows this job and takes it seriously, someone who understands that the issues a president faces are not black and white and cannot be boiled down to 140 characters.
I advise young women: Negotiate hard and know your worth.
The price of greatness is responsibility.
The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me.
Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.
People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.
Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.
You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.
To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man’s character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours.
When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.
For what are the classics but the noblest thoughts of man? They are the only oracles which are not decayed, and there are such answers to the most modern inquiry in them as Delphi and Dodona never gave. We might as well omit to study Nature because she is old.
The American Constitution, one of the few modern political documents drawn up by men who were forced by the sternest circumstances to think out what they really had to face, instead of chopping logic in a university classroom.
There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
My favorite nightcap, after all this time, is still the cocktail of you.
Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant’s truce between virtue and vice.
