The Titanic was built by professionals. The Ark was built by volunteers.

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.

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.

Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not.

Opportunities come and they are manifested too

The daily lesson of slum life, visualised, reiterated, of low standards, vile living, obscenity, profanity, impurity, is bound tobe dwarfing and debasing to the children who are in the midst of it.

Blitz chess kills your ideas.

Reading is the work of the alert mind, is demanding, and under ideal conditions produces finally a sort of ecstasy.

The structure of world peace cannot be the work of one man or one party or one nation. It must be a peace which rests on the cooperative effort of the whole world.

Some things are too big to be seen; some emotions are too huge to be felt.

Future is about dematerialisation.

If I don't wear a wig, I'm called a nasty f*g, if I do wear a wig, I'm hilarious.

I know you aren't perfect. But it's a person's imperfections that make them perfect for someone else.

I argue in this paper that we are on the edge of change comparable to the rise of human life on Earth.