‚Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them after.

If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.

I’ve heard there are troubles of more than one kind; some come from ahead, and some come from behind. But I’ve brought a big bat. I’m all ready, you see; now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!

The generous Critic fann’d the Poet’s fire, And taught the world with reason to admire.

Nobody is my boss.

Animals are my friends… and I don’t eat my friends.

A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.

The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: ‚If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?‘ But… the good Samaritan reversed the question: ‚If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?‘

Many people look at me and think they know me but they don’t at all. This is the real me. I am a humble person, a feeling person. A person who cares about others, who wants to help others.

Give to everyone who begs from you; and of him who takes away your goods do not ask them again. And as you wish that men would do to you, do so to them.

It’s very inexpensive to give a compliment.

If you were the President of the United States or the Queen of England – you couldn’t have a person who would be more protective than my mother was for me. Which meant really that I could dare to do all sorts of things.

Off with you! You’re a happy fellow, for you’ll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that!

I was raised by a mother who told me I was great every day of my life.

A squirrel dying in front of your house may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa.

God has equipped you to handle difficult things. In fact, He has already planted the seeds of discipline and self-control inside you. You just have to water those seeds with His Word to make them grow!

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

I met India Arie, who is one of my favorite artists of all time. It was really sweet; I was broken up with a month before, and she stayed up texting me all night and was helping me through it. Her text message looks like a song of hers. She’s sort of become my fairy godmother.

I can’t read the newspaper without crying. I’m easily affected by horrible events, you see.

Feeling like you’re respected among the people who do the same thing you do is incredible and necessary.

If people wonder, yes, Hillary Clinton is my friend. She has been a friend to me and Barack and Malia and Sasha, and Bill and Chelsea have been embracing and supportive from the very day my husband took the oath of office.

Women feel empowered when they can do the things that are supposed to be only for men, you know? It breaks boundaries, it’s liberating, and it’s empowering when you feel like, ‚Well, I can do that, too.‘

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You’re on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who’ll decide where to go.

Any lady who is first lady likes being first lady. I don’t care what they say, they like it.

Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse.

When the people become involved in their government, government becomes more accountable, and our society is stronger, more compassionate, and better prepared for the challenges of the future.

Be nice to the whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.

I said on the equality side of it, that it is essential to a woman’s equality with man that she be the decision-maker, that her choice be controlling.

When you’re around the kids, you feel like you act the most grown up just because you’re supposed to lead. I say things, like every other parent, that reminds you of your own parents. One thing I do know about being a parent, you understand why your father was in a bad mood a lot.

I was very worried about my mother, growing up – a lot. I do not want my children to be worried about me.

Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.

We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay – and rise!

For most of my life I let women do the driving and was happy to let them.

The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

Either you’re the one erasing or you’re the one being erased.

The fact is that when you do something from your heart, you leave a heart print.

America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world.

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

The world is before you and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.

People have told me, ‚You shouldn’t bring your daughter onto the podium, ‚cause it’s the workplace,‘ and things like that. But I’m not gonna really listen to that. I’m gonna do what I think is fun for me and my family, and everything’ll be all right.

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

There are those who believe Black people possess the secret of joy and that it is this that will sustain them through any spiritual or moral or physical devastation.

How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?

I never expected any sort of success with ‚Mockingbird’… I sort of hoped someone would like it enough to give me encouragement.

My whole family have all been through a difficult time. My focus is my children, our children.

If you’re going to change things, you have to be with the people who hold the levers.

The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery.

Nothing external to you has any power over you.

The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.

The funny thing is people won’t let me pay for things. I’ll be in a restaurant and the manager will say, ‚Oh no, it’s on the house.‘

Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone; at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.

I would be stupid not to be on my own side. But I’m a human being, too. And I’m on the side of human beings, rather than on the side of crocodiles.

In my videos, I always want to be a powerful woman. That’s my mission.

But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

I admire Ralph Nader and Denis Kucinich very much, and insofar as they bring up issues and carry out an educational and organisational function – that’s important, and fine, and I support it.

I personally have always been in favor of people who are gay being permitted to marry legally – and I still feel that way.

Let the one among you who is without sin be the first to cast a stone.

Our words will either bring life and victory or death and destruction. If we want to be happy, we have to be serious about speaking words of life that line up with God’s Word.

Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.

If there is only one thing in my life that I am proud of, it’s that I’ve never been a kept woman.

A man makes you feel important – makes you glad you are a woman.