“And Barack and I were raised with so many of the same values, like you work hard for what you want in life. That your word is your bond that you do what you say you're going to do. That you treat people with dignity and respect, even if you don't know them and even if you don't agree with them.”

“Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.”

“You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - or are they holding you back?”

“March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.”

“Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.”

“Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.”

“You make mistakes, but I don't have any regrets. I'm the kind of person who takes responsibility for it and deals with it. I learn from everything I do. I work very hard, I have so many things going on in my life. Get to know me and see who I am.”

“Education is not preparation for life education is life itself.”

“Life lived for tomorrow will always be just a day away from being realized.”

“You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.”

“When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.”

“The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.”

“This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.”

“Sometimes it's the smallest decisions that can change your life forever.”

“The lie is a condition of life.”

“Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.”

“Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.”

“Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.”

“When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. Let your reason get you back up.”

“You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've become yourself.”

“All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.”