The home is the child's first school, the parent is the child's first teacher, and reading is the child's first subject.

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.

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.

Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not.

Taking a step in the dark is braver than taking a leap in light.

Why do yo keep doing this?""Because I've wanted to be with you for three years, okay? That's why.

Draw outside the lines! Make the sky purple instead of blue! That's what it looks like to dreamers!

If you want to improve the situation of the poorest two billion on the planet, having the price of energy go down substantially would be the best thing you could do for them.

You have an obligation to challenge your fans and your viewers.

Many of the men who had come to the wilderness to practice religion appeared to have forgotten its true nature.

Never will the Anarchists in Spain be made to suffer as they have been and are in Russia.

Before you use a fancy word, make room for it.

The Bible tries to make humans not animals the whole time. I think it's a bit of a mistake.

One of the pleasantest things in the world is going on a journey; I can enjoy society in a room; but out of doors, nature is company enough for me. I am then never less alone than when alone.