What you are comes to you.

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 accept chaos, I’m not sure whether it accepts me.

I feel like you get more bees with honey. But that doesn’t mean I don’t get frustrated in my life. My way of dealing with frustration is to shut down and to think and speak logically.

If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. If certain things are described to you as being real they’re real for you whether they’re real or not.

Pick the day. Enjoy it – to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come… The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present – and I don’t want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future.

It’s very unnatural to be someone for so many people. But of course it’s very nice.

There’s a gap between what I want to do, what I do on camera, and what gets edited. Right? So the goal is to try and close the gaps. What’s the biggest compliment is if I read a review and it’s exactly what I wrote down in my diary before ever filming it. That’s really cool. That’s the biggest signifier of closing the gaps.

There are no second acts in American lives.

The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.

Unity can only be manifested by the Binary. Unity itself and the idea of Unity are already two.

A man’s as miserable as he thinks he is.

You can never really live anyone else’s life, not even your child’s. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you’ve become yourself.

The time to worrying about flying is when you’re on the ground. When you’re up in the air, it’s too late. No point in worrying about it then.

God wants you to be a winner, not a whiner.

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.

I didn’t want to be a fashion designer, and for a good half of my career I didn’t like it. I always wanted to do other things.

When a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to other people.

If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.

Those who know me know I’m passionate about lists, and top of my list of priorities is my family. My wife Joan and I do not consider our legacy to our children to be wealth or fame but the opportunity to pursue happiness by following their own path.

You’re always learning. The problem is, sometimes you stop and think you understand the world. This is not correct. The world is always moving. You never reach the point you can stop making an effort.

Learning about climate change triggered my depression in the first place. But it was also what got me out of my depression, because there were things I could do to improve the situation. I don’t have time to be depressed anymore.

Let each know that for each the body, the mind and the soul have been freed to fulfill themselves.

Choosing an attitude of faith will release peace out of your spirit and into your soul.

However happy people say they are, nobody is satisfied: we always have to be with the prettiest woman, buy a bigger house, change cars, desire what we do not have.

Confine yourself to the present.

Hollywood is not suited for me, and I am not suited for it.

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.

You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best.

Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.

If you’re going to be a winner in life, you have to constantly go beyond your best.

One might say that our words are a movie screen that reveals what we have been thinking and the attitudes we have.

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

I kept a diary right after I was born. Day 1: Tired from the move. Day 2: Everyone thinks I’m an idiot.

I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.

If you don’t know your full-throttle history, the whole story of how you came to where you are, it’s kind of hard to put things together.

I can do whatever I want.

I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget.

When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.

Teach me to feel another’s woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.

When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.

Someone told me something that stuck with me: ‚You have to envision your life, and then go backwards.‘ I’ve been living by that motto for a while, so I see where I need to be. Now I’m just backtracking and trying to get back up there.

Don’t just let the devil use your mind as a garbage dump.

Before you try to keep up with the Joneses, be sure they’re not trying to keep up with you.

To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.

Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, ‚This is a misfortune‘ but ‚To bear this worthily is good fortune.‘

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.

The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.

Honestly, I’ve been thinking lately about how boring I am. When I do get time to myself, I watch TV.

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

The first two games for Churchill, I was so jittery that I didn’t know what to do. I was running more but didn’t know what to do. I’ve no bones accepting the fact that I didn’t know what was happening in the game.

It’s not to much fun to know yourself too well or think you do – everyone needs a little conceit to carry them through & past the falls.

The people who truly know me know what I’m like. There have been people who try to say things that aren’t fair, and I check them. And then they don’t like me because I checked them.

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

I want to put a ding in the universe.

I have never felt more confident in myself, more clear on who I am as a woman. But I am constantly thinking about my own health and making sure that I’m eating right and getting exercise and watching the aches and pains. I want to be this really fly 80-90-year old.

It’s important for me to let my fans know I really don’t care. I’m confident.

When I first went to places where people were suffering from war and persecution, I felt ashamed of my feelings of sadness. I could see more possibilities in my life.

With mindfulness, you can establish yourself in the present in order to touch the wonders of life that are available in that moment.

I’m a big believer in doing things that make you uncomfortable. So, we live in a world where we want to be as comfortable as we can. And we wonder why we have no growth. We wonder why – when the smallest thing in our life gets difficult – we wonder why we cower and we run away.