All good leaders are connectors. They relate well and make people feel confident about themselves and their leader.

People may hear your words, but they feel your attitude.

If I think too hard about a relationship, I’ll talk myself out of it.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

We want our marriage to be a triumph, not a tragedy.

I break ground. I trailblaze.

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.

Faith is a living, daring confidence in God’s grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.

You know, one of the things I think you understand as president is you’re held responsible for everything, but you don’t always have control of everything, right?

Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think. A woman can and should be able to do any political job that a man can do.

I think any man who lets a woman pick what he should wear… I mean, you gotta draw the line somewhere as a man. I see these guys, ‚My wife told me to wear this!‘ And I just shake my head.

The degree of one’s emotions varies inversely with one’s knowledge of the facts.

I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary.

I’m more than comfortable just sitting back and scoring 21, 22 points or whatever and getting 10, 11 assists whatever the case might be. More than comfortable with that. It’s just a matter of the pieces that you have around you and what you can do to elevate everybody else.

I would like to be remembered as a guy who had a set of priorities, and was willing to live by those priorities. In terms of accomplishments, my biggest accomplishment is that I kept the country safe amidst a real danger.

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

My mother had a saying: ‚Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you’re not the last.‘

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

When you give everyone a voice and give people power, the system usually ends up in a really good place. So, what we view our role as, is giving people that power.

We are not angry with people we fear or respect, as long as we fear or respect them; you cannot be afraid of a person and also at the same time angry with him.

Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us.

In various countries and times, leaders of groups that lagged behind, economically and educationally, have taught their followers to blame all their problems on other people – and to hate those other people.

The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better. I, therefore, intend to oppose the effort to increase America’s debt.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

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.

The African is my brother but he is my younger brother by several centuries.

My husband says I look like a Q-tip.

Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

Personally, I’d like to see more of our leaders take a technocratic approach to solving our biggest problems.

How easy it is to govern when one follows a system of consulting the will of the people and one holds as the only norm all the actions which contribute to the well being of the people.

Then, when I’m in these relationships with people who are also creative, or creative in their own way, what happens is the attraction is initially there and it’s all unicorns and rainbows. And then they hate me.

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.

Eating is so intimate. It’s very sensual. When you invite someone to sit at your table and you want to cook for them, you’re inviting a person into your life.

The other day the President said, I know you’ve had some rough times, and I want to do something that will show the nation what faith that I have in you, in your maturity and sense of responsibility. He paused, then said, would you like a puppy?

And I will do everything that I can as long as I am President of the United States to remind the American people that we are one nation under God, and we may call that God different names but we remain one nation.

Magic has five championships. I have five championships. I’m pretty sure we both know what we’re doing.

You can tell the tree by the fruit it bears. You see it through what the organization is delivering as far as a concrete program. If the tree’s fruit sours or grows brackish, then the time has come to chop it down – bury it and walk over it and plant new seeds.

I have the Midas touch, in the way that when I hook up with a project, I feel, not speaking cocky or conceited, but there’s a confidence I have. I learned that from Muhammad Ali; I used to bodyguard him. He taught me about confidence. So when it comes to any job I work, I’m gonna do it good; I’m going to bring it over the top.

I never wanted to weigh more heavily on a man than a bird.

If you want to occupy the C-suite or the top one-tenth of 1% in any organization, you have to be obsessively devoted to your career at the expense of everything else. And women look at that, and they think, ‚No.‘

Success is the child of audacity.

Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.

I have a self-defense mind. I’ve had it all my life.

In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility – I welcome it.

We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.

I have nothing to declare except my genius.

A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman.

Our brand of democracy is hard. But I can promise that a year from now, when I no longer hold this office, I’ll be right there with you as a citizen – inspired by those voices of fairness and vision, of grit and good humor and kindness that have helped America travel so far.

Friend, there’s no greater investment in life than in being a people builder. Relationships are more important than our accomplishments.

The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, ‚We did it ourselves.‘

All mankind love a lover.

No matter how beautiful a woman might be, you’re always threatened by certain… You’re always threatened by other women, period.

I felt we must separate political responsibility. The Dalai Lama should not carry that burden. So that is my selfish reason – to protect the old Dalai Lama tradition. It is safer without political involvement.

When you’re not engaged in the day-to-day struggles that everybody feels, you slowly start losing touch. And I think it’s important for the people in the White House to have a finger on the pulse.

I’m very good at what I do, and I don’t turn my hand to something unless I’m very good at it, frankly.

The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.

Honestly, I always believed in myself. For real, for real.

I’ve… been accused of being involved with every man I’m ever seen with or worked with. Maybe I have, maybe I ain’t. I never tell if I have.

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.