Nobody likes, you know, the ugly parts of politics.

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.

The man of meditation is the man who wastes no time, scatters no energy, misses no opportunity.

I have never been a girlie girl and have always been a boys' girl with an equal amount of friends who were boys and girls.

Give me five players like Robinson and a pitcher and I'll beat any nine-man team in baseball.

Relationships do not preclude issues of morality.

Even when I was really young, I hated doing commercials, because I would say, "That's not real acting." And it's not. It's embarrassing what they make little kids do in commercials.

Well, I think Perl should run faster than C.

Calum offered to paint my nails but I said no because he always uses the wrong shade of purple.

Today, I find inspiration in music, art, traveling the world, and meeting new people.

The world is not a problem; the problem is your unawareness.

There's also these moments when you're like, oh, I really want to do different things. Not instead of this show [The Big Bang Theory]. It's just a hunger to do something else, too.