Show me a wife who doesn't offer advice and I'll show you one who doesn't care very much.

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.

Nothing can hold you back if your determination is strong enough.

Excellent memories are often coupled with feeble judgments.

Some revolutions resemble restorations, at least at first glance.

Music and culture are intrinsically improvisational, existential.

One can be emptied out and be filled up.

I was never someone who had a lot of confidence in anything that had to do with using your brain. I really was lost in my life after football.

Therefore, in the Beginning, which is Truth, all things are Eternal Truth itself

Our thinking minds deprive us of the happiness that comes when we are living fully in the moment.

Until economic freedom is attained for everybody, there can be no real freedom for anybody.

I don't feel I was "born American," but my homeland was denied to me after the end of World War II and I craved something I could identify with.