“I’m worried about parents who aren’t parenting.”

I’m not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.

Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not.

You may think the president is all-powerful, but he is not. He needs a lot of guidance from the Lord.

Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.

I mean you can learn how to build a bullet or build a gun or build a bomb on the Internet.

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!

At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent.

You have to love your children unselfishly. That’s hard. But it’s the only way.

I’m a little old-fashioned.

Whatever the era…one thing will never change: Fathers and mothers, if you have children, they must come first.

The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society’s dream, her own personal dream.

Whether you are talking about education, career, or service, you are talking about life. And life must really have joy. It’s supposed to be fun.

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

Libraries have always seemed like the richest places in the world to me, and I?ve done some of my best learning and thinking thanks to them. Libraries and librarians have definitely changed my life ? and the lives of countless other Americans.

Future of his nation does not depend on what happens at the White House, but what happens at your house

I don’t think that’s healthy for the country when anyone thinks their morals are better than anyone else’s.

The parent-child connection is the most powerful mental health intervention known to mankind.

No matter how painful something is, you have to take it. I saw that in both my parents.

When you have a lot of fake selves, most of the time it’s because you haven’t had parents around so you try to build characters to protect yourself.

There’s a part in every person that has a fake self. We’ve had this since infancy due to our parents and our upbringing.

Absent parents aren’t abusive per se. They’re neglectful. They love in a very imperfect way. There are parents like that, and they do love their daughters and sons, but they’re not parents in the way that we might think of it.

Being a founder is like being a parent. You always stay involved.

My parents told me I must get married. I was seen as a failure if I didn’t do it.

I remove a lot of the pressure from myself by saying I’m not competing with my parents. They are the persons who taught me my ideology. They actively practiced what they preached. They’re the exemplars and the role models. So how does one compete with a mentor?