I can encourage my daughter to love her body, but what really matters are the observations she makes about my relationship with my own body.

I hate being called an ‚icon.‘ I just don’t like it. That’s all there is to it.

I’m not the most attractive fella. I’m not a Billy Dee Williams. Personality is everything.

Faith Hill is a big role model.

Americans are far more remarkable than we give ourselves credit for. We’ve been so busy damning ourselves for years. We’ve done it all, and yet we don’t take credit for it.

I love our daughters more than anything in the world – more than life itself. And while that may not be the first thing that some folks want to hear from an Ivy-league-educated lawyer, it is truly who I am. So for me, being Mom-in-Chief is, and always will be, job number one.

The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors.

I do not like broccoli. And I haven’t liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I’m President of the United States and I’m not going to eat any more broccoli.

I would love to continue in music, with writing… but I am not the kind of person who will hang around if I start to become irrelevant. If that happens, I will bow down gracefully, raise my kids, and have a garden. And I am going to let my hair go gray when I am older. I don’t need to be blonde when I’m 60!

Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.

I don’t think I ever thought of myself as Superman. But there were people who thought of me that way, and maybe I believed them a little.

All things considered, there’s nobody better for children than parents.

Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.

My momma didn’t clean up floors so I could be a thug… so I could wear my pants down.

Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.

When I was a boy, I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing this dream.

After momma gave birth to 12 of us kids, we put her up on a pedestal. It was mostly to keep Daddy away from her.

I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough.

I would be stupid not to be on my own side. But I’m a human being, too. And I’m on the side of human beings, rather than on the side of crocodiles.

I’ve exercised with women so thin that buzzards followed them to their cars.

There’s nothing better than having a baby. I’ve always loved children. I used to work summers at the YMCA and be in charge of, like, 30 preschool kids. I knew that when I had a child, I’d be overwhelmed, and it’s true… I can’t tell you how much my attitude has changed since we’ve got Frances. Holding my baby is the best drug in the world.

Many people identify their sense of self with the problems they have, or think they have.

I do not see myself as a celebrity or an icon or things like that… I have not really done anything.

Ever since I dated a woman, I know what it is to grab a curve on a woman’s body. Skinny’s not fine when the lights are low.

The passive aggressive arguer comes armed with tricky tactics. They cannot take the risk that they might be wrong: their self-esteem is too intertwined with their opinions. It is more important to affirm their rightness, and sense of superiority, than to arrive at the truth.

When I was a kid, I had a tendency to criticize. But when I did, my mum would whisk me off to the bathroom to stand in front of a mirror. Ten minutes, never less. To think about how criticism is a poor reflection on the one who criticizes.

Never have more children than you have car windows.

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

I don’t pick up toys. I crush them.

Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don’t want them to become politicians in the process.

The influence of a mother upon the lives of her children cannot be measured. They know and absorb her example and attitudes when it comes to questions of honesty, temperance, kindness, and industry.

The reason children accept discipline from their parents is because they know their parents love them.

Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.

My parents pretty much realized that I would do whatever I wanted, and that was it, really.

You have enough people against you… be for yourself.

To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.

Even if we give parents all the information they need and we improve school meals and build brand new supermarkets on every corner, none of that matters if when families step into a restaurant, they can’t make a healthy choice.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

The day I wake up without cellulite? Now that would be the perfect day.

I’m comfortable in my own skin, no matter how far it’s stretched. Ha ha.

The Scoutmaster teaches boys to play the game by doing so himself.

I do have a vulnerable side. I think a lot of people have a misperception of me. They only see the tough, defensive, aggressive side. But every woman is vulnerable.

The trend of opinion among eugenists is that we must make marriage more difficult. Certainly no one who is not a desirable parent should be permitted to produce progeny.

Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.

For an Ethiopian mother, if you have a chubby kid, it means you’re doing something good.

I don’t see myself as a philosopher. That’s awfully boring.

I didn’t think it was special to be able to sing.

I always wanted to be loved.

But now, being a parent, I go home and see my son and I forget about any mistake I ever made or the reason I’m upset. I get home and my son is smiling or he comes running to me. It has just made me grow as an individual and grow as a man.

If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.

I always say I’m one of the toughest mama’s boys you’re ever gonna meet. And I say that to send a message to all the young thugs out there; that it’s nothing to be ashamed of to say you love your mother.

It would have been difficult to have an ugly daughter.

We can’t form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.

If a woman can, by careful selection of a father and nourishment of herself, produce a citizen with efficient senses, sound organs and a good digestion, she should clearly be secured a sufficient reward for that natural service to make her willing to undertake and repeat it.

There are some important differences between me and Tony Stark, like I have five kids, so I spend more time going to Disneyland than parties.

Vanity is the healthiest thing in life.

If you are a parent, you have probably already realized that your children are always watching what you do. And just as children watch their parents and emulate their behavior, so do employees who are watching their bosses.

These things bring you to reality as to how fragile you are; at the same moment you are doing something that nobody else is able to do. The same moment that you are seen as the best, the fastest and somebody that cannot be touched, you are enormously fragile.

I don’t see myself as beautiful, because I can see a lot of flaws. People have really odd opinions. They tell me I’m skinny, as if that’s supposed to make me happy.

Deficiency motivation doesn’t work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.