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.

Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not.

The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.

You are not your emotions and they are not who you are, only how you feel at the moment.

Stories choose us, not the other way around.

Just one thing worse than the dark, ain't there? And that's what's inside it - the things that call it home ...

We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.

I'm obsessed with speed. I'm always asking myself, 'Why can't we do things faster? Why can't it happen more efficiently? Why is this requiring three meetings instead of one?'

I grew up always admiring business owners. I was always interested in knowing who pulled what strings. I've always been in love with the decision making process, not just the product.

The E.U. imports more agricultural goods from developing countries around the world than does the U.S., Canada and Japan, combined.

I think for everybody reading can be a solace, illumination, education.

But poverty, with most who whimper forth Their long complaints, is self-inflicted woe; The effect of laziness, or sottish write.