I always wanted a family.

If you wished to be loved, love.

No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.

Remember that a gesture of friendship, no matter how small, is always appreciated.

There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one – keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.

I’m focusing on me. I’m focusing on my family’s security, my family’s financial security, so that’s all I can do.

In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.

Nothing I can say or devise, and nothing anybody else can say or devise, is going to be perfect.

I’m reflective only in the sense that I learn to move forward. I reflect with a purpose.

I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.

Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.

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

It was my delusion and naivety that brought me here.

Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.

I knew through the surgeries that he was on my side and that this wasn’t something where I was gonna feel less of a woman, because my husband wasn’t gonna let that happen.

Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.

Fear is present when we forget that we are a part of God’s divine design. Learning to experience authentic love means abandoning ego’s insistence that you have much to fear and that you are in an unfriendly world. You can make the decision to be free from fear and doubt and return to the brilliant light of love that is always with you.

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.

It’s important to love in hip hop.

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

You don’t look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.

There are going to be things I’m not going to be great at, times when I make mistakes, 100%.

The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Thirty was so strange for me. I’ve really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.

Get up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can. Always stay near me, for tomorrow I will have much to do and more than I ever had, and tomorrow blood will leave my body above the breast.

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

I don’t have to be what you want me to be.

Some are reputed sick and some are not. It often happens that the sicker man is the nurse to the sounder.

No matter what, people grow. If you chose not to grow, you’re staying in a small box with a small mindset. People who win go outside of that box. It’s very simple when you look at it.

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

When I see myself as an old woman, I just think about being happy. And hopefully, I’ll still be fly.

It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.

Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.

My entire childhood was steeped in poverty. For me, poverty, in a way, was the first inspiration of my life, a commitment to do something for the poor.

I just kind of wake up with a new idea and new dreams every day, and I follow that dream, as they say.

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

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 will never be happy without having someone. Going to sleep alone kills me.

Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.

My drive is other people’s success.

My partner Donald Trump says that married couples should always have a prenuptial agreement. True, a prenuptial is important if one partner is much richer than the other before marriage, but Kim and I don’t have one.

Love always brings difficulties, that is true, but the good side of it is that it gives energy.

I’ve laid my friends bare.

If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.

Too often in life, something happens and we blame other people for us not being happy or satisfied or fulfilled. So the point is, we all have choices, and we make the choice to accept people or situations or to not accept situations.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

The word ‚happy‘ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.

You don’t have to be like everybody else or do things like everybody else. God created you to be a unique individual, and He wants you to be free to be who He made you to be.

My ‚fear‘ is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he’ll never stop to trouble about whether he’s happy or not.

If you’re losing your soul and you know it, then you’ve still got a soul left to lose.

If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself.

My dad was very intelligent, had a very strong personality. I was amazed with my father.

I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.