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

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.

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.

Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not.

Now art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.

Your tone demonstrates. . .•

If my fans want to call me a love God, then so be it!

Teaching has always been, for me, linked to issues of social justice. I've never considered it a neutral or passive profession.

the four virtues a person needs in order to be safe and happy in life: intelligence, friendship, strength and (I love this one) poetry.

[Margaret Thatcher] assumed somehow that this would get the woman voter and all those juvenile male voters who wanted a well-regulated household with a woman who knew what she should be doing.

We built this [socialistic] society not for the curbing of personal liberty, but in order that human personalities should really feel free.

Load up our guns Bring your friends It's fun to lose and to pretend

Christmas is never over,unless you want it to be... Christmas is a state of mind.

I prayed the monsters would give up. Or that perhaps Philip of Macedonia would climb back to the terrace (do crocodiles climb?) and renew the fight.