Being First Lady is playing supporting act. I am not seeking notoriety and I am not seeking to grab the limelight.
Pride, that invisible bone that keeps the neck stiff.
Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.
What Darwin was too polite to say, my friends, is that we came to rule the earth not because we were the smartest, or even the meanest, but because we have always been the craziest, most murderous motherfuckers in the jungle.
Come to a book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it, and draw your own map. . . . A book is like a pump. It gives nothing unless first you give to it.
The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.
The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there. . . and still on your feet.
I appeal to the Youth and those on the ground: start talking to each other across divisions of race and political organizations.
If you ask 99. 9 percent of parents who have children with autism if we'd rather have the measles versus autism, we'd sign up for the measles.
I won a noble fame; But with a sudden frown, The people snatched my crown, And, in the mire, trod down My lofty name.
I've been hearing this since I first joined the Reds organization, that I'm going to be the next this or that. It's tough on a young player coming up. You show some positive things and everybody jumps on that and says you should be the next Willie Mays.