And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them.

Your success as a family... our success as a nation... depends not on what happens inside the White House, but on what happens inside your house.

Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people - your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.

Future of his nation does not depend on what happens at the White House, but what happens at your house

I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.

The home is the child's first school, the parent is the child's first teacher, and reading is the child's first subject.

to us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.

The Titanic was built by professionals. The Ark was built by volunteers.

And who knows? Somewhere out in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow in my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the President's spouse. I wish him well!

You have to love your children unselfishly. That's hard. But it's the only way.

So many other planets & stars -- could all those stars set over barren planets, beauty wasted? Or, are sunsets witnessed throughout the universe?

The young should early be trained to bear being left alone; for it is a source of happiness and peace of mind.

What wretched doings come from the ardor of fame; the love of truth alone would never make one man attack another bitterly.

Meta-design is much more difficult than design; it's easier to draw something than to explain how to draw it.

If our country got along with Russia, that would be a great thing.

I wrote a paper [in school] on [William] Faulkner and no one could tell what the sentences meant.

Perspective is the most important thing to have in life.

The greatest crime of welfare isn't that it's a waste of money, but that it's a waste of people.

Exploration is a wonderful way to open our eyes to the world, & to truly see that impossible is just a word.

Creating is no problem - problem solving is not creating.