I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.

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.

We have to bring in captivity every high thing in people’s mind.

Summer was a book of hope. That's why I loved and hated summers. Because they made me want to believe.

I can't imagine you not saying a word," said Marcus."I think you'd go crazy first.

When I run barefoot, I put my shoes on my hands. Running around with shoe-hands looks a little weird.

Ares (The God of War) hates those who hesitate.

What makes one heroic? - Going out to meet at the same time one's highest suffering and one's highest hope.

Careerism is the determination to reign in hell rather than serve in heaven.

The gods, the immortals, were the inventors of death and corruption; yet with one or two notable exceptions they have lacked the courage to try their invention out on themselves.

First you fuel the desire, then the desire will fuel you.

Columbus saved the Indians from themselves.