“I really loved living in the White House, but I don’t miss it at all.”

Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.

I mean you can learn how to build a bullet or build a gun or build a bomb on the Internet.

And who knows? Somewhere out in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow in my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the President’s spouse. I wish him well!

I’m worried about parents who aren’t parenting.

At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent.

You have to love your children unselfishly. That’s hard. But it’s the only way.

I’m a little old-fashioned.

Whatever the era…one thing will never change: Fathers and mothers, if you have children, they must come first.

The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society’s dream, her own personal dream.

Whether you are talking about education, career, or service, you are talking about life. And life must really have joy. It’s supposed to be fun.

You try to do something every single day that will help an American or maybe someone overseas.

Libraries have always seemed like the richest places in the world to me, and I?ve done some of my best learning and thinking thanks to them. Libraries and librarians have definitely changed my life ? and the lives of countless other Americans.

Future of his nation does not depend on what happens at the White House, but what happens at your house

I don’t think that’s healthy for the country when anyone thinks their morals are better than anyone else’s.

You can’t tell a 6-year-old your sister is going to die.

If you are the wife of a governor or the wife of a vice president, I think you can be prepared for it.

In these trying economic times, I believe the White House should have a minimalist touch: open floor plan, glass and steel, throw pillows, and an infinity pool.

I wanted the young African-American girls also on the bus to know that they had a right to be there, because they had paid their fare just like the white passengers.

I’d imagine my wedding as a fairy tale… huge, beautiful and white.

That was worse than stealing, you know, talking back to a white person.

As long as white people put people of color, African Americans and Latinos, in the same dispensable bag, and look at our children of color as insignificant and treat women of color as not as deserving of protection as white women, we will never achieve true equality.

Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps.

I was about four years old the first time I ever saw what happened when you acted up to whites.

Some girls like to say one thing and mean another. And me being who I am, I’m very straightforward. Everything is very black and white for me. I don’t really like playing mind games.