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.

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

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.

Believe in something larger than yourself ... to get involved in some of the big ideas of our time.

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.

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.