Mr. President, Mrs. Obama. There is a photograph of you [hugging] that went viral, became the most shared photograph in the history of Twitter. How do you keep the fire going?

First of all, the Jewish religion has a great deal in common with the Christian religion because, as Rabbi Gillman points out in the show, Christianity is based on Judaism. Christ was Jewish.

Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna - or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.

Parents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children as enchanting as they do.

The hardest thing you will ever do is trust yourself.

Life sometimes brings enormous difficulties and challenges that seem just too hard to bear. But bear them you can, and bear them you will, and your life can have a purpose.

Work harder than everybody. You're not going to get it by whining, and you're not going to get it by shouting, and you're not going to get it by quitting. You're going to get it by being there.

I didn't get ahead by sleeping with people. Girls, take heart!

Most of us have trouble juggling. The woman who says she doesn't is someone whom I admire but have never met.

It would be nice to feel that we are a better world, a world of more compassion and a world of more humanity, and to believe in the basic goodness of man.

Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.

Hypocrite shouts about the change, but never let risk coming on his way.

If you are joyful, do not worry about lukewarmness. Joy will shine in your eyes and in your look, in your conversation and in your countenance. You will not be able to hide it because joy overflows.

For ya, love, I will be anything ya want... even a potato.

You can't teach in a vacuum. A good teacher relates the material to real life. You understand that, don't you?

There are few things less comforting than a tiger who's been up too late.

Don't put your characters on a treadmill. They need to go new places, face new challenges and do new things.

What played to what had been a relative weakness for us-this was exploding overseas as well, and we had to scramble to mount some reach and get into places and be competitive on the ground.

These people are obsessive. They go overboard interpreting verbal and behavioral cues that take them way beyond reality.

In every area, we seem to have thrown everything away and embraced reality television. Its nauseating, programme after programme.

The Wealth of Nations may not be an original book, but it is unquestionably a masterpiece.