Michelle Obama

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

It’s powerful to have strong men but what does that strength mean?

What I have never been afraid of is to be a little silly, and you can engage people that way!

If my future were determined just by my performance on a standardized test, I wouldn’t be here. I guarantee you that.

One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself, and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals.

Strong men, men who are truly role models, don’t need to put down women to make themselves feel powerful.

No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place.

To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his left and right hand. He uses both.

God has no religion.

The concept known as bal tashchit – ‘Do no destroy’ – has a special significance in Jewish tradition…We are constantly being warned in our faith that the capricious, thoughtless, wasteful destruction of the elements and creatures of the earth is wrong…We should remind ourselves daily of our responsibility to all aspects of creation.

Faith is believing what you know ain’t so.

Being neededdoes not entail selfish pride or unhealthy attachment to the worldly esteem of others. Rather, it consists of a natural human hunger to serve our fellow men and women.

What you possess, you lose.

Music brought me closer to the idea of God.

If we could get all religions together on a common purpose-the elimination of jealousies and the things that make men covet another’s belongings, we would be a long way toward the goal of outmoding war, depression and poverty.

Perhaps the most spiritual thing any of us can do is simply to look through our own eyes, see with the eyes of wholeness, and act with integrity and kindness.

Each step along the Buddha’s path to happiness requires practising mindfulness until it becomes part of your daily life.

One who conquers himself is greater than another who conquers a thousand times a thousand on the battlefield.

Learning Zen is a phenomenon of gold & dung. Before you learn it, it’s like gold; after you learn it, it’s like dung.

I take the kids to church and Sunday school. They love it. I really think it’s important for a child to feel that there are things that are bigger than your life out there.

When you get there, there isn’t any there there.