Barack Obama Quotes

We live our whole lives, and in our dying moment, we have to ask ourselves, 'What did we really care about? What impact did we make on the world?' The older I get, the more I realize the answers have to do with how we affect and love the people around us.

I wonder what memories of yours will persist as you go on in life. My hunch is that the most important will have to do with feelings of loving and being loved - friends, family, teachers, shopkeepers - whoever's been close to you. As you continue to grow, you'll find many ways of expressing your love and you'll discover more and more ways in which others express their love for you.

Look to what you have around you and be grateful, instead of searching for more. All you take with you when you leave this world is love, friendship, and good deeds.

I am what I am. I love golf, I love my life, I love my family and friends.

As long as you understand that you find happiness through family, friends and love, then money is just a nice bonus.

To me, there's no greater reward than being around people you care about and can be present with.

What do most people say on their deathbed? They don't say, 'I wish I'd made more money.' What they say is, 'I wish I'd spent more time with my family and done more for society or my community.'

The whole thing means such a great deal for me, and hopefully one day it will be there. But my friends and my family mean a little more. I would rather be helping them, even if it hurts that.

No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.

Chris didn't only leave a legacy of work. He left a legacy of love.

All the money you make, all the awards you win, all the plays you produce, all the things you accomplish - the only thing that will remain is the love and the relationships that are formed in your lifetime.

When you're going over periods of your life, you remember certain things, certain events, certain people that you've forgotten. You've forgotten certain lessons or people you were very close to, and then you haven't seen them in a while. I think if you can go through life with the correct regrets, then looking back on it, like I did, a certain portion of my life is pretty enjoyable. All my regrets are ones that I'd like to keep.

What I want to say is that I owe all the happiness of my life to you. You have been entirely patient with me and incredibly good. Everything is gone from me but the certainty of your goodness. I can't go on spoiling your life any longer. I don't think two people could have been happier than we have been.

In death, we are not defined by what we did or who we were but by what we meant to others. How well we loved and were loved in return.

I have no friends, there are only people I love.

Success is measured by the memories you create.

I have so many great friends, so many great memories, so many great pictures, so many great songs, so many great relationships with people. I definitely feel, for the last 15 years, that I spent my time very wisely. And that's a great thing to be able to look back at.

If you have three people in your life that you can trust, you can consider yourself the luckiest person in the whole world.

You know, true love really matters, friends really matter, family really matters. Being responsible and disciplined and healthy really matters.

It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love.

Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.

The friends we have, these are choices that - unlike family, which we have no choice in, and I love my family, thank God - we've given ourselves, to some degree.

So many people have touched my heart and made an impact on my world. I'm thankful for every lesson and learning experience.

I just have a great life. I know great people. I've had great relationships - all different kinds of relationships.

I'm surrounded by great friends and family. I don't know what I would do without them.