Michelle Obama

For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country. And not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change. And I have been desperate to see our country moving in that direction.

When you’re not engaged in the day-to-day struggles that everybody feels, you slowly start losing touch. And I think it’s important for the people in the White House to have a finger on the pulse.

I wish that girls could fail as bad as men do and be okay.

Success is only meaningful and enjoyable if it feels like your own.

We’re so afraid of each other… Colour, wealth, these things that don’t really matter still play too much of a role in how we see one another. And it’s sad, because the thing that least defines us is the colour of our skin.

What sometimes is missing for young girls is that so early in our lives we’re shushed. And not just directly shushed. Sometimes we’re treated a little too preciously. They treat us like a doll. They don’t treat us like real beings, equal partners. I was loved early by my father, but I was never so precious that he didn’t think I could be there at the table.

I have to live for others and not for myself: that’s middle-class morality.

Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.

Perhaps man is the only being that can properly be called idle.

“I will breathe. I will think of solutions. I will not let my worry control me. I will not let my stress level break me. I will simply breathe and it will be okay because I don’t quit.”- Shayne Mcclendon

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.

What you can’t pay back you pay forward.

A man is related to all nature.

Suspicion amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they never fly by twilight.

Every man has his own vocation, talent is the call.

When many demons are struggling inside you, the one that you feed is the one that will become the strongest. You alone are responsible for what you feed.

Arguments of convenience lack integrity and inevitably trip you up.

All problems are finally scientific problems.

There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom.

Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain – at least in a poor country like Russia – and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect.

In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond.