Mine is better than ours.

There is a fine balance between honoring the past and losing yourself in it. For example, you can acknowledge and learn from mistakes you made, and then move on and refocus on the now. It is called forgiving yourself.

The devil is a peace stealer, and he works hard to set us up to get upset. But we can learn how to change our approach so we don’t live upset all of the time. And Jesus gives us the best example to follow.

Winning the title in England is the biggest challenge of them all.

In George Bush you get experience, and with me you get – The Future!

There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can.

To live alone is the fate of all great souls.

I can express myself.

The best advice comes from people who don’t give advice.

I’m my own worst critic, and if I don’t pull off what I think I wanted to do in my head, then I won’t be a happy girl.

It’s not fun to get out of bed early in the morning. When the alarm goes off, it doesn’t sing you a song: it hits you in the head with a baseball bat. So how do you respond to that? Do you crawl underneath your covers and hide? Or do you get up, get aggressive, and attack the day?

One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.

In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o’clock in the morning, day after day.

Basically, when you get to my age, you’ll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you.

First and foremost, we need to be the adults we want our children to be. We should watch our own gossiping and anger. We should model the kindness we want to see.

I couldn’t go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years.

Most of us aren’t defeated in one decisive battle. We are defeated one tiny, seemingly insignificant surrender at a time that chips away at who we should really be.

I think, when you are growing up, you have to pull apart from what your mother wants or needs. You’ve got to go your own way, and that’s what I did.

I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catcher’s mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.

The people in my songs are all me.

Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.

Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.

You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.

If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.

Without being the most confident person in the world, I think I am the right person for Liverpool.

I am my own sanctuary and I can be reborn as many times as I choose throughout my life.

Many people feel so pressured by the expectations of others that it causes them to be frustrated, miserable and confused about what they should do. But there is a way to live a simple, joy-filled, peaceful life, and the key is learning how to be led by the Holy Spirit, not the traditions or expectations of man.

Nobody can ever say that being negative ever helped them at all – not in any way.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

Love is a state of being.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‚I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.‘

Practice yourself, for heaven’s sake in little things, and then proceed to greater.

I want to rethink ‚surrender‘ as an active verb.

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

If you’re going to spend two years of your life on something, it has to matter to you; you have to be passionate about it.

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.

It’s hard to be clear about who you are when you are carrying around a bunch of baggage from the past. I’ve learned to let go and move more quickly into the next place.

I learned a long time ago how to be coachable.

Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you’re exactly the same.

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.

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

I don’t write so much now. I’m getting on 33, pot belly and creeping dementia.

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

I wasn’t born a natural entrepreneur. I had to be trained.

God enters by a private door into every individual.

Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.

Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.

My life is my message.

Vulnerability is basically uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure.

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.

You know, it’s not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself.

I was raised to be independent.

People who want the most approval get the least and people who need approval the least get the most.

Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners.

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

Courage – you develop courage by doing small things like just as if you wouldn’t want to pick up a 100-pound weight without preparing yourself.

Solitude is independence.

She never envisioned a legal career for me, but she did think it was very important that I be able to support myself, and I think she would be pleased to see what has become of me.