What I believe unites the people of this nation, regardless of race or region or party, young or old, rich or poor, is the simple, profound belief in opportunity for all – the notion that if you work hard and take responsibility, you can get ahead.

I believe there are no questions that science can’t answer about a physical universe.

I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.

Accountability breeds response-ability.

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

I say something, and then it usually happens. Maybe not on schedule, but it usually happens.

The word ‚God‘ usually signifies ‚Lord‘, but every lord is not a God. It is the dominion of a spiritual being which constitutes a God: a true, supreme, or imaginary dominion makes a true, supreme, or imaginary God.

One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made straight and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don’t play together, the club won’t be worth a dime.

Ultimately this issue is on us. We’re the ones who make the decisions about what our kids eat.

What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.

The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.

We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.

A president either is constantly on top of events or, if he hesitates, events will soon be on top of him. I never felt that I could let up for a moment.

I think there ought to be a strict separation or wall built between our religious faith and our practice of political authority in office. I don’t think the President of the United States should extoll Christianity if he happens to be a Christian at the expense of Judaism, Islam or other faiths.

People often speak of God being even-handed. God is not even-handed. God is biased, in favor of the weak, of the despised.

When you face a ‚performance‘ that might provoke the ‚I’m scared‘ response, choose love and approach your opportunity as a chance to dance with God. It’s more fun than ‚Dancing with the Stars!‘

When the party gives me a responsibility, I must do it with complete dedication. God has given me the ability, which I utilise to its optimum.

You can’t knock on opportunity’s door and not be ready.

Too many Christians live their lives like slaves – to the devil – because they believe his lies more than they trust God.

Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.

If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.

The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.

And I will do everything that I can as long as I am President of the United States to remind the American people that we are one nation under God, and we may call that God different names but we remain one nation.

You can’t have it all, all at once. Who – man or woman – has it all, all at once? Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all. But in different periods of time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence… on pain of liquidation.

I believe God’s keeping the records, and I believe you will be rewarded even in this life. Somehow, some way, God will make it up to you. It may be He protected you from an accident you never knew. You can’t give God something without God giving you more in return, whether it’s peace or joy or satisfaction.

We all have the duty to do good.

Memories are thoughts that arise. They’re not realities. Only when you believe that they are real, then they have the power over you. But when you realize it’s just another thought arising about the past, then you can have a spacious relationship with that thought. The thought no longer has you in its grip.

I’m amazed sometimes by the Christians who don’t really believe that God wants to help them and bless them.

I should like to know if, taking this old Declaration of Independence, which declares that all men are equal upon principle, you begin making exceptions to it, where will you stop? If one man says it does not mean a Negro, why not another say it does not mean some other man?

What I really want to say: That what the world really needs is a real feeling of kinship. Everybody: stars, laborers, Negroes, Jews, Arabs. We are all brothers.

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

There are millions of Americans outside Washington who are tired of stale political arguments and are moving this country forward. They believe, and I believe, that here in America, our success should depend not on accident of birth, but the strength of our work ethic and the scope of our dreams.

I have worked hard since my childhood and worked as a labourer. I put my mind and heart into it.

‚Whole Women’s Health‘ made it very clear that poor women were no longer going to be left out.

Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.

If you are part of a religion that very strongly insists that you believe then to decide not to do that is quite a big hurdle to jump over. You never forget the thought process you went through. It becomes part of your whole intellectual picture.

Whether slavery shall go into Nebraska, or other new territories, is not a matter of exclusive concern to the people who may go there. The whole nation is interested that the best use shall be made of these territories. We want them for the homes of free white people.

We have a great group of guys that really sacrifice every night, care about each other, and try to play the right away.

The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.

I don’t argue when people say that my message is simple, but I believe Jesus‘ message was simple.

The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality.

I do not believe any of the statistical claims that are made about public opinion. I don’t see why anybody does.

I say luck is when an opportunity comes along and you’re prepared for it.

Most emissions aren’t caused by individuals, they’re caused by corporations and states.

Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.

If someone is gay and he searches for the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge? We shouldn’t marginalise people for this. They must be integrated into society.

When we have peace, then we have a chance to save the planet. But if we are not united in peace, if we do not practice mindful consumption, we cannot save our planet.

We want justice, but at the same time, we gotta love and come together and bring unity, and I feel it’s gonna happen.

It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.

I do believe in the energy and the productivity of the American business world.

Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn’t argue with that; I’m right and I will be proved right. We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first – rock and roll or Christianity.

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.

God tries you in certain, certain ways. Some people are rich, and they believe in God. They lose the money, things get hard, they get weak and quit going to church. Quit serving God like they did.

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It’s just that the translations have gone wrong.

Man, all lives matter.

I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.