Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.

I’m healthy as can be – not an ache or a pain. A lot of my prayer is thanking the Lord that I am healthy. I pray for long life and good health.

Nothing external to you has any power over you.

You have to give others the opportunity to love who you love. If they don’t accept it, it’s their loss.

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.

I encourage people not to be passive consumers of music and of culture in general. And feeling like, yeah, you can enjoy the products of professionals, but that doesn’t mean you don’t have to completely give up the reins and give up every connection to music or whatever it happens to be.

Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.

We can’t form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.

Love… it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.

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

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or, rather, you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love.

I believe that of all the things I have done, exciting though many of them have been, there’s no doubt in my mind that the most worthwhile have been the establishing of schools and hospitals, and the rebuilding of monasteries in the mountains.

I love life because what more is there?

Most people already know what they’re doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.

Black Americans, no more than white Americans, they do not want more government programs which perpetuate dependency. They don’t want to be a colony in a nation.

Tell me: when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?… It is necessary to accompany them with mercy.

Some people keep God in a Sunday morning box and say, ‚Hey, I did my religious duty.‘ That’s fine, but the scripture says to pray without ceasing. And I think that means all through the day you’re talking to God. Even if it’s in your thoughts.

When I walk with you I feel as if I had a flower in my buttonhole.

We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans – because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings. That’s why we paint, that’s why we dare to love someone – because we have the impulse to explain who we are.

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

I don’t want to just revolve. I want to evolve. As a man, as a human, as a father, as a lover.

Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.

I’ve told Billy if I ever caught him cheating, I wouldn’t kill him because I love his children and they need a dad. But I would beat him up. I know where all of his sports injuries are.

We can never make ourselves better by trying… praying more or longer, studying more of the Word, performing good works, etc. Don’t get me wrong… it’s not bad to do any of these things. In fact, it’s good. It’s just that doing them in God’s power is the only way those things will have any real and lasting effect in our lives.

I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.

Technology is nothing. What’s important is that you have a faith in people, that they’re basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they’ll do wonderful things with them.

I’ve always felt heroic about my life… As a child, I remember little girls in the playground moaning about how boys could do more than they could. I didn’t think that was the case at all. My parents didn’t treat me as a girl.

We talk about this concept of openness and transparency as the high-level ideal that we’re moving towards at Facebook. The way that we get there is by empowering people to share and connect. The combination of those two things leads the world to become more open.

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

Our faith is released as we say, pray and do the Word.

I had a lovers quarrel with the world.

I had nothing growing up, but I always wanted to be ‚sexy,‘ even before I knew what the word was.

The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.

I love sleep; it’s my favorite.

I have a son, who is my heart. A wonderful young man, daring and loving and strong and kind.

When I say to you, there is nobody like me, and there never was, that is a statement I want every woman to feel and make about themselves.

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

I came up from a difficult background.

Apple has given me a platform to spread music. They’re giving us Latinos a chance to shine.

I don’t have to ‚freedom-kiss‘ my wife when what I really want to do is French-kiss her.

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle.

I just want people to be the best thems and live the happiest lives possible.

I wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves, and I watch my daughters – two beautiful, intelligent black young women – playing with their dogs on the White House lawn. And because of Hillary Clinton, my daughters, and all our sons and daughters, now take for granted that a woman can be president of the United States.

I’ve never had a dislike for men. I’ve been badly treated by some. But I’ve been loved greatly by some. I married a lot of them.

It is a hard thing to let go of mistakes we’ve made and sins. God wants us to do that because He knows the guilt and the condemnation will keep us from becoming who He has created us to be.

Remember: your bosses prefer to keep you in dependent positions. It is in their interest that you do not become self-reliant, and so they will tend to hoard information. You must secretly work against this and seize this information for yourself.

Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.

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.

Without forgiveness, there’s no future.

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

There are some hurts that we experience that can be forgiven but we won’t forget them.

Life is too short for long-term grudges.

Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?

You pray for rain, you gotta deal with the mud too. That’s a part of it.

Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.

You don’t need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!