Women are the engine driving the growth in California’s economy. Women make California’s economy unique.

Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.

Each generation goes further than the generation preceding it because it stands on the shoulders of that generation. You will have opportunities beyond anything we’ve ever known.

How could you have a soccer team if all were goalkeepers? How would it be an orchestra if all were French horns?

Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn’t matter which color does the hating. It’s just plain wrong.

Even if the government spends itself into bankruptcy and the economy still does not recover, Keynesians can always say that it would have worked if only the government had spent more.

Neither sex, without some fertilization of the complimentary characters of the other, is capable of the highest reaches of human endeavor.

The U.N. bureaucracy has grown to elephantine proportions. Now that the Cold War is over, we are asking that elephant to do gymnastics.

Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.

People don’t care about what someone says about you in a movie – or even what you say, right? They care about what you build. And if you can make something that makes people’s life better, then that’s something that’s really good.

I long remained a child, and I am still one in many respects.

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

When I was growing up, there were no women in orchestras. Auditioners thought they could tell the difference between a woman playing and a man. Some intelligent person devised a simple solution: Drop a curtain between the auditioners and the people trying out. And, lo and behold, women began to get jobs in symphony orchestras.

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

If we keep doing what we’re doing, we’re going to keep getting what we’re getting.

If we could do high-speed rail in California just half a notch above what they’ve done on the Shanghai line in China, and if we had a straight path from L.A. to San Francisco, as well as the milk run, at least that would be progress.

And what’s interesting, and I don’t think a lot of Americans understand this fact, is that, one, most new jobs are created by small businesses; two, most small businesses pay tax at the individual income tax, or many small businesses pay tax there.

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.

My public is growing up just as I am. After all, I’m not 19 anymore and if I stick with the sex bit, who will be paying to see me when I’m 50?

The dollar has lost over 90 percent of its value since the Fed was created.

You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.

I wrote my first song at 12 and remember someone asking, ‚What were you going through at 12 that you could write about?‘ I get what you’re saying, but 11, 12, 13 were the hardest years of my life. You learn everything. You learn how horrible things feel.

Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, but, they also get more notoriety when they crash.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

Are we a nation that educates the world’s best and brightest in our universities, only to send them home to create businesses in countries that compete against us? Or are we a nation that encourages them to stay and create jobs, businesses, and industries right here in America?

There are so many men and women who hold no distinctive positions but whose contribution towards the development of society has been enormous.

I have made a few mistakes early on that I admit myself, and there have been times when I have gone over the top and done things that you shouldn’t do in international cricket, but that’s how you learn.

If you change and adapt your persona, you are seen as inauthentic; if you stay the angry young man, you fade from attention or seem tiresome.

The poor are discussed as this homogeneous mash, like porridge. The idea that they might be individuals, and be where they are for very different, diverse reasons, again seems to escape some people.

I’m not focused on the gay and lesbian movement.

The media need superheroes in science just as in every sphere of life, but there is really a continuous range of abilities with no clear dividing line.

I’m asking myself, ‚What do my girls, what do all our children deserve in their president? What kind of a president do we want for them?‘ Well, to start with, I think we want someone who is a unifying force in this country: someone who sees our differences not as a threat, but as a blessing.

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

The entering class I joined in 1956 included just nine women, up from five in the then second-year class, and only one African American. All professors, in those now-ancient days, were of the same race and sex.

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.

I don’t think that women need to smell interesting.

Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.

At the end of the day, women are a distraction. Whether you realize it or not.

A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.

No intelligent black man or black woman in his or her right black mind wants white boys and white girls coming to their homes to marry their black sons and daughters.

I am a beneficiary of the American people’s generosity, and I hope we can have comprehensive immigration legislation that allows this country to continue to be enriched by those who were not born here.

I’ve been really fortunate to be able to do different kinds of films in different scales, different genres, different kinds of roles, and that is important to me.

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

People and organizations don’t grow much without delegation and completed staff work because they are confined to the capacities of the boss and reflect both personal strengths and weaknesses.

Today different ethnic groups and different nations come together due to common sense.

Our country does not believe in the concept of your God and my God. We believe that all gods are one. We have different ways of accepting Him. All ways lead to Him.

Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.

Only stupid people are changed by success.

I have a memory, and I can just eliminate mistakes when they come up because I’ve already made them.

Men and women may form associations for and among themselves and be governed by stipulations that are mutually acceptable.

I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one ‚race‘ – the human race – and that we are all members of it.

And now, of course this is another thing I didn’t count on, that now as the governor of the state of California, I am selling California worldwide. You see that? Selling.

Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.

Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.

You know, one race will not be a survivor if the other one dies, and that’s something that we should think about.

I always say the strength of democracy lies in criticism. If there is no criticism, that means there is no democracy. And if you want to grow, you must invite criticism. And I want to grow; I want to invite criticism.

We can continue to learn generation after generation and now is time to begin to learn how to love in a non-discriminatory way because we are intelligent enough, but we are not loving enough as a species.

We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.