Michelle Obama

Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude.

No matter who you are, no matter where you come from, you are beautiful.

The arts are not just a nice thing to have or to do if there is free time or if one can afford it. Rather, paintings and poetry, music and fashion, design and dialogue, they all define who we are as a people and provide an account of our history for the next generation.

The times when Barack and I are at our most relaxed are when we invite some friends over who we have known forever. And you put a little music on top of that? Some good food? It renews your spirit to get back in the game.

You cannot take your freedoms for granted. Just like generations who have come before you, you have to do your part to preserve and protect those freedoms… you need to be preparing yourself to add your voice to our national conversation.

I’ve never had the passion for politics.

You are your own teacher. Investigate yourself to find the truth – inside, not outside. Knowing yourself is most important.

For profit higher education is today a booming industry feeding on the student loans handed out to the desperate.

There was no word dyslexia when I was a kid. You were just dumb.

Education is the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.

Instead of going to Paris to attend lectures, go to the public library, and you won’t come out for twenty years, if you really wish to learn.

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car, but if he has a university education he may steal the whole railroad.

You can’t learn in school what the world is going to do next year.

Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.

Over the years, I have again and again asked fellow believers in a free society how they managed to escape the contagion of their collectivist intellectual environment. No name has been mentioned more often as the source of enlightenment than Friedrich Hayek’s.

Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.

Continuous learning is the minimum requirement for success in any field!

As a kid I had a hard time reading in school. I was the kid who would go one period a day to the class for kids with learning disabilities.

But before any great things are accomplished, a memorable change must be made in the system of Education and knowledge must become so general as to raise the lower ranks of Society nearer to the higher. The Education of a Nation, instead of being confined to a few schools & Universities, for the instruction of the few, must become the National Care and expence, for the information of the Many.

What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.

I have been learning English on the road since I started when I was 15, so it is a slow process but making some progress. Now I think I am much more comfortable with my English. However, it is difficult, still, when I speak about something that is not tennis.