When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Believe in something larger than yourself... get involved in the big ideas of your time.

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 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.

One thing I can say about George... he may not be able to keep a job, but he's not boring.

I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time.

The personal things should be left out of platforms at conventions. You can argue yourself blue in the face, and you're not going to change each other's minds. It's a waste of your time and my time.

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.

My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?

To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.

Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.

Cherish your human connections - your relationships with friends and family.

I'm not a competitive person, and I think women like me because they don't think I'm competitive, just nice.

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.

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

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!

It was the dumbest thing I had ever seen, but it's a family thing, and I guess it's clean.

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.

Everything I worry about would be better if more people could read, write and comprehend.

I do have the most marvelous husband, children, and grandchildren.

I don't like attacking.

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

I hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.

I really built myself up, darn it, to be very strong.

I really feel very strongly that the person who runs for office is the courageous one, and the one who everybody has to know.

I really loved living in the White House, but I don't miss it at all.

I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.

I'm a great believer that the most important years are the sort of early years but the preschool years and then into the first and second grades. If you get a good base in the first and second grade and you can read, you can do anything.

I'm not being outspoken or pro or con abortion.

I'm worried about parents who aren't parenting.

Let's judge a man on what he's done.

Life has changed enormously, and I hope - I hope more people read good things.

My health is very good.

Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not.

Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.

Nobody likes, you know, the ugly parts of politics.

People who worry about their hair all the time, frankly, are boring.

Suddenly women's lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.

The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.

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.

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.