Everything I worry about would be better if more people could read, write and comprehend.

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.

The only thing on Earth you can count on is that there is nothing on Earth you can count on.

Understanding and discovering yourself is a critical aspect of your life

The wise pause

If you're going to plan a wedding, then a certain amount of suffering is not a choice.

Another essential to a universal and durable peace is social justice.

There are no more thorough prudes than those who have some little secret to hide.

But I have to add - and this answers your other question - this catholicity in time and in space is only meaningful for me if there is, at the same time, a concentration on the Gospel.

Advertising in the past has been predicated on a mass market and a captive audience.

You have to appreciate every single day that you're alive. Life is a little bit like a garden - you have to find time to plant the seeds for beautiful flowers to grow.

I try to tell people that just because you're buff and cut doesn't mean you're healthy.