Michelle Obama

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

I’ve seen firsthand that being president doesn’t change who you are. It reveals who you are.

I think every kid needs to get a taste of what it’s like to do that real hard work.

When you’ve worked hard, and done well, and walked through that doorway of opportunity, you do not slam it shut behind you. You reach back, and you give other folks the same chances that helped you succeed.

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

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

There are no have-to’s, just choices.

You cannot be a hero without being a coward.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

He does not care for flowers. Calls them rubbish, and cannot tell one from another, and thinks it is superior to feel like that.

Avoid popularity it has many snares and no real benefit.

You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.

Ah! Sir, a boy’s being flogged is not so severe as a man’s having the hiss of the world against him.

Fierce eagles do not produce timorous doves.

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.

Intellectual tasting of life will not supersede muscular activity.

The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity… The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Why do you treat me as they do, as though I were exactly what I want to be. Why do we treat people that way?

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.

Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.