I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women… no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.

Being beautiful is not so fun when you’re in a business with all men.

If I get married, I want to be very married.

The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.

The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors.

Neither sex, without some fertilization of the complimentary characters of the other, is capable of the highest reaches of human endeavor.

The second time around, I’ll understand that, as a husband, my wife doesn’t care about my opinions. I just need to tell her the things that will continue to help me stack the brownie points.

I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.

Why do Jewish divorces cost so much? They’re worth it.

Alimony – the ransom that the happy pay to the devil.

Isn’t it amazing that we are all made in God’s image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people?

Our country does not believe in the concept of your God and my God. We believe that all gods are one. We have different ways of accepting Him. All ways lead to Him.

You cannot talk about race without talking about privilege. And when people start talking about privilege, they get paralyzed by shame.

I’m working at trying to be a Christian, and that’s serious business. It’s like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a good Buddhist, a good Shintoist, a good Zoroastrian, a good friend, a good lover, a good mother, a good buddy – it’s serious business.

If you want to make computers that really work, create a design team composed only of healthy, active women with lots else to do in their lives, and give them carte blanche.

Tell your wife often how terrific she looks.

I like working. That’s when I’m feeling my best. And the people around me know that. My wife knows that.

I do not expect the white media to create positive black male images.

I met my husband before I became a star, and he doesn’t care about any of it.

It used to be the case, like you’d switch jobs, and then maybe you wouldn’t keep in touch with all the people that you knew from that old job, just because it was too hard. But one of the things that Facebook does is it makes it really easy to just stay in touch with all these people.

Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That’s because they were able to connect experiences they’ve had and synthesize new things.

Man’s enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.

May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love!

Whatever woman may cast her lot with mine, should any ever do so, it is my intention to do all in my power to make her happy and contented; and there is nothing I can imagine that would make me more unhappy than to fail in the effort.

Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.

It’s important to love in hip hop.

It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.

We are all alike, on the inside.

There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.

A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

I will never be happy without having someone. Going to sleep alone kills me.

Building capacity dissolves differences. It irons out inequalities.

Woman begins by resisting a man’s advances and ends by blocking his retreat.

Although the circumstances of our lives may seem very disengaged, with me standing here as the First Lady of the United States of America and you just getting through school, I want you to know we have very much in common. For nothing in my life ever would have predicted that I would be standing here as the first African-American First Lady.

People from all over the world come to London wanting to make their own mark on it, and they add to the energy and vitality of the capital. It’s got a bit busier since the ’60s, but the more the merrier!

Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.

Here in America, we don’t let our differences tear us apart. Not here. Because we know that our greatness comes from when we appreciate each other’s strengths, when we learn from each other, when we lean on each other, because in this country, it’s never been each person for themselves. No, we’re all in this together. We always have been.

Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.

People think, because we’re young, we aren’t complex, but that’s not true. We deal with life and love and broken hearts in the same way a woman a few years older might.

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

Keeping score is for games, not friendships.

There isn’t any formula or method. You learn to love by loving – by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.

He that has not got a wife is not yet a complete man.

Love is an interesting thing. Perhaps I’ve never been in love before – I don’t really know? I think I have. I guess it’s subjective in that way.

Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.

I’m going to try to unite all Americans.

When you have good friends you’ve been around, every time they talk, you don’t give them your full attention. You don’t look them in the eye and stop. Half the time, you’re listening, half the time, you are ignoring them.

Racial prejudice, anti-Semitism, or hatred of anyone with different beliefs has no place in the human mind or heart.

How do I know about a man’s needs for a sex symbol? I’m a girl.

Knavery and flattery are blood relations.

When you’re doing a film and the majority of the film is cast black, for me, it’s most important to get people to view those movies as just movies, as just good movies. At the end of the day, regardless of the color of the cast, we’re all doing the same thing in this business: trying to make a good film.

The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.

I really thought I was on the way out. My husband Blake saved my life. Often I don’t know what I do, then the next day the memory returns. And then I am engulfed in shame.

I don’t have a type. I don’t have a specific kind of human being. It’s just kind of an X-factor of sorts. Everybody I’ve ever dated has been a case-by-case situation.

SEALs are human beings. We may all have the same haircuts, but we aren’t robots. Some SEALs are great people. Some are not great people. Some have done unspeakably terrible things. You’re dealing with different people, different dreams, different desires.

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.

I think daughters can change the perception of their fathers.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.