If you wished to be loved, love.

The real truths of life are never entirely new to you or to anybody because there is a level deep down within you where you already know all the things, all those spiritual truths that you read or hear, and then recognize them. I say ‚recognize‘ because you’re not… it’s not new.

Smiles are the language of love.

Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.

I love our daughters more than anything in the world – more than life itself. And while that may not be the first thing that some folks want to hear from an Ivy-league-educated lawyer, it is truly who I am. So for me, being Mom-in-Chief is, and always will be, job number one.

Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.

My wife has about everything I can think of.

I have a big gay and lesbian following and they’ve been very loyal and kind to me.

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.

The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life… Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality.

I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.

Intense love does not measure, it just gives.

Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. For remember, you don’t live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.

There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

People have me pinned as a shark or a predator in some way, and in no way am I that. I wouldn’t want to hurt anyone. I want to defend people. I want to help people.

I approach love differently now that I know it’s hard for it to work out.

Build a man a fire, and he’ll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he’ll be warm for the rest of his life.

All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.

Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.

Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.

Assuming if there’s such a thing as reality, if you have a false relationship with it, how can you do anything but fail?

Old age: the crown of life, our play’s last act.

I love to play. And fortunately, I don’t know a lot of musicians that suck. I know a bunch of really good ones, and they’re always up for playing.

If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own.

Nature is not human hearted.

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.

Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.

And I love that even in the toughest moments, when we’re all sweating it – when we’re worried that the bill won’t pass, and it seems like all is lost – Barack never lets himself get distracted by the chatter and the noise. Just like his grandmother, he just keeps getting up and moving forward… with patience and wisdom, and courage and grace.

Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.

As I grow up, the lessons I learn in love and relationships and how we treat each other are hopefully maturing – hopefully.

The American people have not become heartless.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.

He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.

Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.

You see, at the end of the day, my most important title is still ‚mom-in-chief.‘ My daughters are still the heart of my heart and the center of my world.

The natural desire of good men is knowledge.

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.

As I get older, I tend to put more into family than I used to.

To be intimate with a married man, when my own father cheated on my mother, is not something I could forgive. I could not look at myself in the morning if I did that. I wouldn’t be attracted to a man who would cheat on his wife.

A lot of the time when I write about the person that I love, I feel like I’m writing about New York.

As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.

Joy is prayer; joy is strength: joy is love; joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.

Man’s only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.

So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they are delivered, they are liberated, by the act of not being able to stop changing.

My father wasn’t a cruel man. And I loved him. But he was a pretty tough character. His own father was even tougher – one of those Victorians, hard as iron – but my dad was tough enough.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.

Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.

I believe that God breathed life into every person and that every person is made in the image of God and you have accept them as they are, on their journey. I’m not here to preach hate or push people down.

We must restore hope to young people, help the old, be open to the future, spread love. Be poor among the poor. We need to include the excluded and preach peace.

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

We’re a blip in the existence of the universe, and we’re constantly trying to pull each other down. Not doing things to help each other.