There are a lot of ways to serve, and being president is not the only one, and I would hope that someone else would run.

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.

A pain stabbed my heart, as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world.

What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying.

Your heart is a conduit through which the spirit speaks to the mind.

I would forgive my mom, but she's going to have to admit she did some things that were wrong.

I'm a gemini, and I get so bored so easily. I mean, I have moved six times in the last eight years.

Man is almost always as wicked as his needs require.

An optimist is a man who plants two acorns and buys a hammock.

I see things, that's all. Write enough stories and every shadow on the floor looks like a footprint; every line in the dirt like a secret message.

I'm in a relationship with life. My life is just out there. I'm on the road every day. I love my life.

the past is not only that which happened but also that which could have happened but did not.