To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.
Barbara Bush
I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.
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.
Cherish your human connections - your relationships with friends and family.
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.
Family and friends and faith are the most important things in your life and you should be building friendships.
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.
Believe in something larger than yourself... get involved in the big ideas of your time.
Somewhere out in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the president's spouse. I wish him well!
When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.
I hate the fact that people think 'compromise' is a dirty word.
Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.
I'm not a competitive person, and I think women like me because they don't think I'm competitive, just nice.
If human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems, as possessing strengths instead of weaknesses, as unlimited rather that dull and unresponsive, then they thrive and grow to their capabilities.
You have to love your children unselfishly. That's hard. But it's the only way.
People who worry about their hair all the time, frankly, are boring.
My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?
Well, look at what people are doing for returned veterans now. The wounded warriors. They're working hard to make the wounded veterans feel that they are loved and welcomed home, unlike Vietnam. It was not a very kind, gentle world then. I think we are kinder and gentler.
Value your friendship. Value your relationships.
The state dinner is almost a formula, but you try to make it interesting. You try not to overload it with too many political types. You try to get a cross section.
I have a pig valve.
You may think the president is all-powerful, but he is not. He needs a lot of guidance from the Lord.
I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.
Life has changed enormously, and I hope - I hope more people read good things.
Nobody likes, you know, the ugly parts of politics.
And who knows? Somewhere out there in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the president's spouse. I wish him well!
You don't just luck into things as much as you would like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it is friendships or opportunities.
If you are the wife of a governor or the wife of a vice president, I think you can be prepared for it.
I hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.
I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money.
You get nothing done if you don't listen to each other.
I don't like the blame game, though.
I'm worried about parents who aren't parenting.
You can't tell a 6-year-old your sister is going to die.
Everything I worry about would be better if more people could read, write and comprehend.
Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not.
One thing I can say about George... he may not be able to keep a job, but he's not boring.
Raising five boys is a handful, trust me.
I really built myself up, darn it, to be very strong.
You know sit with your arm around a little kid and read. It not only teaches them to read but it keeps the family strong.
Suddenly women's lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.
It seems to me I spent my life in car pools, but you know, that's how I kept track of what was going on.
I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
I mean you can learn how to build a bullet or build a gun or build a bomb on the Internet.
I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time.
You try to do something every single day that will help an American or maybe someone overseas.
Three publishers came to me at the White House after George lost and said, 'We would like to publish your book.' I said, 'Well, I don't have a book,' and they said well it's a well known fact that you have kept diaries.
I do have the most marvelous husband, children, and grandchildren.
I'm taking a vow not to advise.
You just don't luck into things as much as you'd like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it's friendships or opportunities.
