Well I think a lot of times we’re putting things off and I’m going to do it later. I’m going to break this bad habit or I’m going to pursue this dream or I’m going to treat my spouse better.

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.

When all is said and done, more is said than done.

I think everyone should approach relationships from the perspective of playing it straight and giving someone the benefit of the doubt. Until he establishes that this is a game. And if it’s a game, you need to win. The best thing to do is just walk away from the table.

If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose – somehow we win out.

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

My favorite affirmation when I feel stuck or out of sorts is: Whatever I need is already here, and it is all for my highest good. Jot this down and post it conspicuously throughout your home, on the dashboard of your car, at your office, on your microwave oven, and even in front of your toilets!

Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.

Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic.

I want to believe that I am improving. This is something that I take really seriously.

I just got to feel that whoever I marry has some real regard for me.

It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.

I’m just a kid that defied the odds. I’m just a kid that ignored the doubt. I’m just a kid from a little place in Dublin, Ireland, that went all the way, and I’m going to continue to go all the way.

If your treat an individual… as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you’ll be criticized anyway. You’ll be damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.

I was a kind of hyper-intense person in my twenties and very impatient.

It’s not an easy course. It’s not designed to be. We’re not here to get you in touch with your inner child.

May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love!

Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.

Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

If you want to be a voice for peace in the world, begin by making peace a permanent condition of your own life.

You know how big love is? Love is big. love can hold anger; love can even hold hatred.

Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.

Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.

I intend to inspire people with my story: motivate young people that grew up like myself, or even not like myself. Just, you know, go through the human experience.

To create something you must be something.

A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.

A man is what he thinks about all day long.

The man who can centre his thoughts and hopes upon something transcending self can find a certain peace in the ordinary troubles of life, which is impossible to the pure egoist.

A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.

Sometimes it is better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness.

The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

I have rules for a lot of areas of my life. Love is not going to be one of them.

To get a hold on boys you must be their friend.

There are two kinds of people in this world. ‚I‘ people and ‚we‘ people. I’ve always tried to be a ‚we‘ person.

Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.

There are still many causes worth sacrificing for, so much history yet to be made.

Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.

A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.

The future rewards those who press on. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I’m going to press on.

A man’s character is his fate.

Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.

All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

I’m not very articulate.

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

I always make my dreams into goals.

Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.

He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.

Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.

My family is very good about visiting me, and other friends as well.

Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.

God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are.

It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.

People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?

I have had some cosmetic surgery, especially after I lost weight and stuff, and I’ve had my breasts lifted – but not injected. That would scare me to death, anyway.

While you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.

Defeat doesn’t finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he’s defeated. He’s finished when he quits.