I really feel very strongly that the person who runs for office is the courageous one, and the one who everybody has to know.

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.

Sincere love is not as a result of emotional surges - it’s a result of obedience to the Truth.

The thinker requires exactly the same light as the painter, clear, without direct sunshine, or blinding reflection, and, where possible, from above.

The smaller the ball used in the sport, the better the book.

Any system of government will work when everything is going well. It's the system that functions in the pinches that survive

I listened to a lot of Michael Jackson growing up. A lot of Boyz II Men. I loved Mariah Carey. Just big vocalists. I was always that kid who just wore whatever and did whatever.

The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.

You can't conserve what you haven't got.

The universe stands aside for those people who know where they are going.

Truly now is the golden age; the highest honour comes by means of gold; by gold love is procured.

I admire natural, untouched beauty.