I'm not saying to be happy you must be married. Nor am I saying that to be happy you need children. I'm saying that if you opt for children - be you man or woman - you have to take care of them.

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.

A man can own a woman or a man can own a knife, but no man can own both.

One principle reason why men are so often useless is that they ... divide and shift their attention among a multitude of objects and pursuits.

I'm simply the mom who makes the lunch, drives to school, finds where the toys are, washes the clothes, and I'm here to play. And that's all I should be.

Rome ... seems to me the place in the world where one can best dispense with happiness.

It is amazing how the public steadfastly refuse to attend the third day of a match when so often the last day produces the best and most exciting cricket.

Nay," cried Bingley, "this is too much, to remember at night all the foolish things that were said in the morning.

If it's controversy out there, or if it's some false stories out there, I want to clear it up. That's just what I'm all about.

We realize the importance of our voices only when we are silenced

Are writers reporters, prophets, crazies, entertainers, preachers, judges, what?

Nothing is new except arrangement.