I'm not a competitive person, and I think women like me because they don't think I'm competitive, just nice.

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.

Can you imagine how your life would be if you couldn't talk?

A people may let a king fall, yet still remain a people, but if a king let his people slip from him, he is no longer a king.

But it is with a different kind of spell that art deludes you ... it leads you to pay religious honor and worship to images and pictures.

I want people to leave the cinema feeling that something's been confirmed for them about life.

There is that unique moment when one confronts something new and astonishment begins.

Medicine is incredibly ritualistic.

I really don't like being referred to as a folk artist.

The knowledge of numbers is one of the chief distinctions between us and the brutes.

In terms of scope, and in terms of sheer number of characters, we went beyond our limits long ago.

Pessimism does win us great happy moments.