You can't tell a 6-year-old your sister is going to die.

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.

The ultimate philosophy of life is not found in words, but it is found in the ways of living life.

When a man has seen the woman whom he would have chosen if he had intended to marry speedily, his remaining a bachelor will usually depend on her resolution rather than on his.

I wanted to make a film that gave the people who took LSD at that time the hallucinations that you get with that drug, but without hallucinating.

I do love the ceremony of putting on a record but I don't have space for a vinyl collection.

A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be.

I stole that from Vito Russo. He said he was a devout believer in Judyism.

I've learned to control everything. I don't get angry at anything. Somebody can do me wrong. That's life. What good is it to get angry?

...he was like a man who stands upon a hill above the town he had left, yet does not say 'The town is near,' but turns his eyes upon the distant soaring ranges.

Idealistic reformers are dangerous because their idealism has no roots in love, but is simply a hysterical and unbalanced rage for order amidst their own chaos.