I was never particularly fond of my voice.

While we are postponing, life speeds by.

I think there is a lot made out of age, and what age you feel.

I imagine I will be less involved in film and be focused more on family and foreign affairs.

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.

You have to just accept your body. You may not love it all the way, but you just have to be comfortable with it, comfortable with knowing that that’s your body.

To become ‚unique,‘ the challenge is to fight the hardest battle which anyone can imagine until you reach your destination.

Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.

No, I’m not a French designer either. I’m from nowhere. I’m a European, old European is all I am.

I’m very aware and very conscious of the path I chose in life, and very aware of the path I didn’t choose.

I have a memory, and I can just eliminate mistakes when they come up because I’ve already made them.

Sometimes I feel my whole life has been one big rejection.

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.

As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.

Silence is a source of great strength.

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

People have so many hang-ups about how other people live their lives. People always want to keep you in a little box, or they need to label you and fix you in time and location.

I’m selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I’m out of control, and at times hard to handle. But if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best.

If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember.

Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.

I built a label at the same time I built a career.

We’re in the last days, man – I truly, in my heart, believe that. It’s written. I could go on with biblical situations and things my grandma told me. But it’s about being at peace with myself and making good with the people around me.

I have no time to think about other writers. I am too busy with my own problems.

Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.

Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.

I want to be the greatest actor that ever lived, frankly. I’d love that. But I don’t need to be. I just want to be here. That’s it.

I am trying to find myself. Sometimes that’s not easy.

He knows my limitations and where I’m a good wife and a good mom.

It is important to remember yourself.

Peace in the world starts with peace in oneself. If everyone lives mindfully, everyone will be more healthy, feel more fulfilled in their daily lives and there will be more peace.

The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.

People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.

The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.

If you don’t like what you’re doing, then don’t do it.

Every man’s memory is his private literature.

It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.

There is no coming to consciousness without pain.

Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked: as I never was when I was not one.

By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.

To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

Self-talk, for me, has been the biggest thing in my life. A lot of us have a dialogue that is crap. It’s a crappy dialogue. We live in a world right now that is very external. Everything is very on the surface. Superficial. Everything. And what we’re telling ourselves is what we see on TV.

Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

Well, I’m in my 60s now. I finally look it, I think. People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger, which I think, without flattering myself, I did, but I think I certainly have, as George Orwell says people do after a certain age, the face they deserve.

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

I’m one of the world’s most self-conscious people. I really have to struggle.

We are all at times unconscious prophets.

You not supposed to feel down over whatever happen to you. I mean, you’re supposed to use whatever happen to you as some type of upper, not a downer.

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.

The fact that you are willing to say, ‚I do not understand, and it is fine,‘ is the greatest understanding you could exhibit.

We human beings are strange creatures and still reserve the right to think for ourselves.

The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs.

I don’t want to make money; I want to make a difference.

Confidence comes from discipline and training.

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.

If I feel anxious every time someone is staring at me, well, I can’t control what they stare at, but my reaction is, I’m just not going to go outside the house. I’m going to stay in and chill. And when I do go out, I understand what comes along with that.