It was the dumbest thing I had ever seen, but it's a family thing, and I guess it's clean.

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.

Something I learned in the Marine Corps that I've applied to acting is, one, taking direction, and then working with a group of people to accomplish a mission and knowing your role within that team.

Happiness and unhappiness are in the heart and spirit of each one of us: If you feel unhappy, then place yourself above that and act so that your happiness does not get to be dependent on anything.

You're thinking of Europe as Germany and France. I don't. I think that's old Europe.

Commitment becomes hysterical when those who have nothing to give advocate generosity, and those who have nothing to give up preach renunciation.

Books, to the reading child, are so much more than books-they are dreams and knowledge, they are a future, and a past.

Riches without law are more dangerous than is poverty without law

If you give a man a hammer, he thinks he can solve all problems by pounding. Well, God gave men penises.

I feel as if I'm going through a mid-life crisis. I don't feel very attractive and it's like I'm frigid or something. I'm aging and it makes me very sad.

For me, the family is more important, of course! I don't want to change my family, or situation, for work. But I think it is possible for these things not to fight each other.

Look at what happened in the Past. Learn something valuable from it. Do things differently in the present.