Some people give time some money some their skills and connections some literally give their life's blood . . . but everyone has something to give.

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.

when the need is in the mind, you cannot satisfy the need

Listen to the child in you and follow its innocence

Statement earrings and statement necklaces each deserve their own moment. I never wear the two together; it looks overdone.

It was like she was cheated. Only nobody had cheated her. So there was nobody to take it out on. However, just the same she had that feeling. Cheated.

I thought of myself as a writer for years before I got around to writing anything.

The logic of the heart is absurd

I've said this forever - I've always believed the Today show is more than the sum of its parts

You can't heal what you can't feel!

As far as things I avoid, I always avoid following trends just because they're trends.

For them to have the season that they had, for them to have us on the ropes ... Congrats to the Cavs.