Michelle Obama

Failure is an important part of your growth and developing resilience. Don’t be afraid to fail.

I’m a product of pop culture.

Being president doesn’t change who you are – it reveals who you are.

People in the beauty community don’t like copycats, so I think it’s important to stay true to who you are and people will stay your customer.

I’ve been at so many tables with so many folks who are imposters. But shame on us if we sit by and let an imposter talk us down.

What I notice about men, all men, is that their order is me, my family, God is in there somewhere, but me is first.

Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.

A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.

My religion? Well, my dear, I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.

All the sweetness of religion is conveyed to the world by the hands of story-tellers and image-makers. Without their fictions the truths of religion would for the multitude be neither intelligible nor even apprehensible; and the prophets would prophesy and the teachers teach in vain.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune, for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Certainly the best works and of greatest merit for the public have proceeded from the unmarried or childless men, which both in affection and means have married and endowed the public. He was reputed one of the wise men that made answer to the question, when a man should marryA young man not yet, an elder man not at all.

Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still.

To solve a problem or to reach a goal, you don’t need to know all the answers in advance. But you must have a clear idea of the problem or the goal you want to reach.

If you and I are having a single thought of violence or hatred against anyone in the world at this moment, we are contributing to the wounding of the world.

It isn’t safe to sit in judgment upon another person’s illusion when you are not on the inside. While you are thinking it is a dream, he may be knowing it is a planet.

And when a woman’s will is as strong as the man’s who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.

You are all fundamentalists with a top dressing of science. That is why you are the stupidest of conservatives and reactionists in politics and the most bigoted of obstructionists in science itself. When it comes to getting a move on you are all of the same opinion: stop it, flog it, hang it, dynamite it, stamp it out.

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Zeal ever follows an appearance of truth, and the assured are too apt to be warm; but it is their weak side in argument; zeal being better shown against sin than persons, or their mistakes.

The man is either mad, or he is making verses.