I don't feel that because I'm First Lady, I'm very different from what I was before. It can happen to anyone. After all, it has happened to anyone.

That's what we're here on this Earth for, to help others.

I have an independent streak. You know, it's kind of hard to tell a independent woman what to do.

The search for human freedom can never be complete without freedom for women.

You can make it, but it's easier if you don't have to do it alone.

A liberated woman is one who feels confident in herself, and is happy in what she is doing. She is a person who has a sense of self-it all comes down to a freedom of choice.

You never know what you can do until you have to do it.

I feel it's important to be active. People who retire, sit by their swimming pool and golf course and plan to relax have a very empty life.

Being a lady does not require silence.

My makeup wasn't smeared, I wasn't disheveled, I behaved politely, and I never finished off a bottle, so how could I be alcoholic?

I don't look at what I've lost. I look instead at what I have left.

Bipolar is an illness not a hopeless destination it can be maintained with proper medication

I used to drink Coke all the time. It was so good. It gives you a lot of energy.

I try to live in such a way that nothing gets bigger than my awareness of God presence on my life.

You have to enjoy the game. I enjoy everything about life.

Innovation happens because there are people out there doing and trying a lot of different things.

That rarest gift to Beauty, Common Sense!

I have nothing but respect for the purist who won't work for the pharaoh. But I'm not that strong.

I believe that only a subset of us is meant to lead. The rest want to follow.

Error is part of the overhead of doing research

It is time for blacks to begin the shift from a wartime to a peacetime identity, from fighting for opportunity to the seizing of it.