You know sit with your arm around a little kid and read. It not only teaches them to read but it keeps the family strong.

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 wastes of snow on the hill were ghostly in the moonlight. The stars were piercingly bright.

People pleasing doesn't allow you to receive.

My mom used to call me a parrot, because the way I spoke would change in every country we'd go to.

I don't believe we are, because I believe that just as 9/11 was an attack on a very populous area, terrorism also looks to see where you can go and where you're not expected.

Taxes cause the most bad business decisions.

What the investment community does like is short-term measures designed to boost share prices.

Philanthropy is not about the money. It's about using whatever resources you have at your fingertips and applying them to improving the world.

Being in touch with the problems in the world or our lives is important, but even more important is to focus the brain on what we can do about them.

According to the saying of an ancient philosopher, one should eat to live, and not live to eat

What is it you want to change? Your hair, your face, your body? Why? For God is in love with all those things and he might weep when they are gone.