Believe in something larger than yourself ... to get involved in some of the big ideas of our time.

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.

Be as you are or be as you seen...no more, no less

I chose to stay with him for all the things that he had done right and not to leave him for the one thing that he had done wrong.

The secret is to keep yourself interesting.

I believe I became one of the first singers to be launched via television exposure. I guess I was a new kind of musical stylist for a new kind of media.

Without hope we live in desire.

Love is a way of being, not something you give. When a person is truly loving, he is love.

When you feel so strongly about something and other people feel equally strongly, you have to feel stronger about it in order to succeed.

The most valuable lesson man has learned from his dog is to kick a few blades of grass over it and move on.

O woman! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!

Real estate is the best investment for small savings. More money is made from the rise in real estate values than from all other causes combined.