I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money.

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 price of happiness is unconditional love.

And tell them all about the books you've read. Better still, buy some more books and read them. That's an order. You can never read too many books.

I was the first size 14 model to be featured in an ad in the magazine,I was the first size 14 model on the cover!

Love is like a rose, the joy of all the earth.

Irony gives us, at little expense, the impression that we are experienced psychologists.

The meaning ... of a writer will be found not just in what he intends to say, or what he does literally say, but in the effect of his writing on living beings.

They were going crazy in Kansas. People were up to 9 p.m. I think that was the greatest thing to happen to Kansas since the eradication of the boll weevil.

Just because you have a group of scientists who stood up and said here is the fact. Galileo got outvoted for a spell.

Contempt is egotism in ill- humor.

Around here, however, we don't look backwards for very long.