But why should we hear about body bags and deaths, and how many, what day it's gonna happen, and how many this or what do you suppose? Or, I mean, it's not relevant. So, why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?

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.

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.

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

I love talking to people, but what I really love is to feel you're doing something instead of sitting home and twiddling your thumbs.

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.

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