I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end… I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

The space shuttle was often used as an example of why you shouldn’t even attempt to make something reusable. But one failed experiment does not invalidate the greater goal. If that was the case, we’d never have had the light bulb.

It’s one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.

The buck stops here!

Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

While musical experts of the world focus on what choir members can do, I would like to focus on what choir members can be.

Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?

I will keep America moving forward, always forward, for a better America, for an endless enduring dream and a thousand Points of Light. This is my mission, and I will complete it.

The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who’ll get me a book I ain’t read.

I’d like to believe that the people that have supported me in my work or identified with me in films, the people that feel they know me, they do and they don’t have misconceptions – they understand. I believe that.

I guess I’m living in the present more than the past.

The life so short, the craft so long to learn.

I don’t have emotional needs, only physical ones.

I’ve always written. There’s a journal which I kept from about 9 years old. The man who gave it to me lived across the street from the store and kept it when my grandmother’s papers were destroyed. I’d written some essays. I loved poetry, still do. But I really, really loved it then.

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.

It’s easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.

I had very good support from Democrats and Republicans all throughout my administration. I had a very high batting average. We added more jobs per year in my four years than any other president since the Second World War.

Why did I become Jackie Chan? Mostly because I work very hard. When people were sleeping, I was still training.

I’m a genetic optimist.

I’ve been careful in love. I’ve been careless in love. And I’ve had adventures I wouldn’t trade for anything.

Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.

No matter what, people grow. If you chose not to grow, you’re staying in a small box with a small mindset. People who win go outside of that box. It’s very simple when you look at it.

So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

I have always believed in evolving a consensus before taking any major decision.

The world around me has changed, and I have learned to adapt but not change. But I’m changing into the woman I am meant to be.

So far as I am concerned, I could not be accused of having set eyes, or having wished to set eyes, upon Darius‘ wife: on the contrary, I have refused even to listen to those who spoke to me of her beauty.

The President is not only the leader of a party, he is the President of the whole people. He must interpret the conscience of America. He must guide his conduct by the idealism of our people.

Just like every person who works for Dortmund is a fan of the club, it was the same at Mainz. When I was a player there, we had 800 supporters on rainy Saturday afternoons, and if we died, no one would notice or come to our funeral. But we loved the club, and we have this same feeling at Dortmund.

It’s been wonderful for me, and I feel so privileged to have fans that are that loyal.

To live alone is the fate of all great souls.

I don’t have any secrets I need kept any more.

The drama and the trauma of the relationship you have when you’re 16 can mirror the one you have when you’re 26. Life repeats itself.

A man has a tendency to accept you the way you are, while most women immediately start to pick flaws and want to change you.

I grew up as this very carefree, happy kid then things turned darker for me. Maybe it was because I saw that the world wasn’t as happy a place as I had hoped it would be for me.

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.

Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.

I’m asking myself, ‚What do my girls, what do all our children deserve in their president? What kind of a president do we want for them?‘ Well, to start with, I think we want someone who is a unifying force in this country: someone who sees our differences not as a threat, but as a blessing.

I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn’t know how to get along without it.

If you’re going to be a winner in life, you have to constantly go beyond your best.

It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts.

Like associates with like.

Some people are very good at being ‚stars‘ and it suits them. I’m grudging about it and I find it annoying.

I wanted to write when I was young, but people said it was impossible. Then my parents locked me in a mental institution – they said I was crazy and would never make a living from writing.

How does a nice Catholic girl end up going to prison for a year? It’s crazy. I’ve made mistakes. I have to pay for those mistakes.

OVOXO will always be there.

America’s promises do not come with a price tag. We meet our commitments. We bear our burdens. That’s one of the reasons why almost every country on Earth sees America as stronger and more respected today than they did eight years ago when I took office.

When you’re in prison, you want to know that you were thought about.

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

A friend is, as it were, a second self.

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.

There are no rules when it comes to love.

I think music is something that can, and should, be used to get you into different things because eventually what goes up must come down – we’re not going to be the number one group in the world forever – so you have to have something else to fall back on.

I think beating myself up sometimes and knowing I am not happy when I do it makes me work harder to do a good job.

It’s always a struggle growing up in Akron.

We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our education system.

I’m inconsistent, even to myself.

I am a grafter.