I'm proud of myself, people love me and respect me, and I like me. I like who I am.

Suddenly she was here. And I was no longer pregnant; I was a mother. I never believed in miracles before.

Some call it schizophrenia, I call it a career

How many consuming fires can there be in the words: freedom, peace and democracy and how easy they can be extinguished by ignorance, stupidity and arrogance?

Gratitude is a blessed act.

I couldn't remember anyone hugging me like that before.

There is nothing in our book, the Koran, that teaches us to suffer peacefully. Our religion teaches us to be intelligent.

Specifically, the part where in the early 19th century America reconstituted the U.S. Marine Corps to battle the Islamic Barbary Pirates, though I don't think that's what Obama meant.

They learned to hate her unknowability, her untouchability, the collage of her.

Sometimes you just have to get out there and just help somebody face to face.

Far from being a “luxury for the rich,” organic farming may turn out to be a necessity not just for the poor, but for everyone.

Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.

The best revenge against bullies is absolutely, resolutely, never to let them change who you are. Know that whatever bullies say or do - it comes from their weakness, not yours.