If more people could read, write, and comprehend, we could be much closer to solving so many of the other problems our country faces today.

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.

Which came first: the change-ready company or the change-ready employee?

❤ We must all find the spirit to try and help better humanity! We all have it inside us to contribute something to the cause of humanity!

My thick and full lips shall pout their African ancestry until all sorrows are kissed out of me.

I wanted to cry but I didn't, I probably should have cried, I should have drowned us there in the room ending our suffering.

Make something beautiful of your life.

A Dominie in Gray-- Put gently up the evening Bars-- And led the flock away

You know, that's all basketball is. If someone loves something, and you take it away, it's like what does he do now? What does someone do? That's what happened with me.

My father always had doubts about the Booker prize, although they evaporated on the announcement that he had won it.

It seems to me that I never grow unless I'm actually working with other actors who have shed whatever shell it is that keeps them insulated from each other.

I am constantly seeing new horror that I like.