You try to do something every single day that will help an American or maybe someone overseas.

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.

Cold feet under a warm blanket, steam over an empty mug--rain splatters on dry window pane--open journals of closed memories... tears of laughter and joy of pain... schmaltz of diametric morning.

The best audience is one that is intelligent, well-educated, and a little drunk.

One must not attempt to justify them, but rather to sense their nature simply and clearly.

Change doesn't have to be hard, and healing doesn't have to hurt. Surely by now you know that every thing happens for a reason! There is something better awaiting you on the other side of this.

In the affluent society, no useful distinction can be made between luxuries and necessities.

There is no such thing as the pursuit of happiness, but there is the discovery of joy.

Listen to Jesus and follow him. That's the message of the Transfiguration.

Life is not easy. Life is very harsh. We have to be strong. Otherwise, life will destroy us.

I prefer my oysters fried; that way I know my oysters died.

The piles of makeup and the insistence on frills and ribbons and bows was not at all attuned to my feminist views.