The state dinner is almost a formula, but you try to make it interesting. You try not to overload it with too many political types. You try to get a cross section.

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.

Solitude is our greatest teacher

The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

I don't smoke, don't drink much, and go to the gym five times a week. I live a healthy lifestyle and feel great. I can run a marathon, you know.

We cannot understand. The best is perhaps what we understand least.

The cure for cynicism is simply to engage honestly.

In politics, the number of women in the cabinet has fallen and, if current poll trends continue and Labour loses a number of marginal seats, the number of female MPs is likely to drop significantly.

I think it's important to remember that the court itself, the federal government itself belongs to the American people.

I suppose I should understand it [fame] better by this point, but I really don't.

Television has certainly become a wasteland of quality programming.

How you see your future is much more important that what has happened in your past.