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.

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.

Traditions are a common part of our lives. They can be good, and not all traditions are wrong, but sometimes they can take the joy out of life.

A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do… but how much love we put in that action.

When I was a kid, I never thought much about football. I thought about following in my family’s footsteps and going into professional wrestling.

We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America.

Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.

You know, my sister sings, my brother plays drums in my band. My whole family is a bunch of musicians.

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

Never have more children than you have car windows.

OK, I have a nickname. My family calls me ‚Trey‘ because I’m William the third. My dad has the same name, which is always confusing because my dad is well known, and I’m also known.

I believe in the spirit of equality and the spirit of this country as one of love and compassion and kindness.

Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.

Who, being loved, is poor?

A good lawyer is going to try to protect her client.

My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success.

Basketball is my passion, I love it. But my family and friends mean everything to me. That’s what’s important. I need my phone so I can keep in contact with them at all times.

It is necessary to fall in love… if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.

I approach love differently now that I know it’s hard for it to work out.

Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.

Train up a child in the way that he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

Do you know what you call those who use towels and never wash them, eat meals and never do the dishes, sit in rooms they never clean, and are entertained till they drop? If you have just answered, ‚A house guest,‘ you’re wrong because I have just described my kids.

I never fall in love.

You can write a song about being in love with someone, but you don’t have to be in love with anyone.

I want kids. I want a soccer team, and I want a husband.

My brother Bob doesn’t want to be in government – he promised Dad he’d go straight.

My mom and I have always been there for each other. We had some tough times, but she was always there for me.

I think that’s something that all mothers have to deal with, especially single mothers. We work, and we have to leave the kids behind. And I think that’s one of the reasons that we, not only as women but as families, we have to advocate for early childhood education for all of our children.

Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.

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

If someone lies, well, you had a choice to trust that person or not. I think the way my father raised me, well, he trusted everybody. And that worked for him.

I’m the most recognized and loved man that ever lived cuz there weren’t no satellites when Jesus and Moses were around, so people far away in the villages didn’t know about them.

Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn’t enough and you have to go and get shot or something.

Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move. Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love.

My friend has a baby. I’m recording all the noises he makes so later I can ask him what he meant.

I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone’s wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really.

My grandpa was a preacher.

I have no problem yelling at anybody’s kid – free of charge!

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

I have a feeling that I make a very good friend, and I’m a good mother, and a good sister, and a good citizen. I am involved in life itself – all of it. And I have a lot of energy and a lot of nerve.

My folks ain’t graduated from high school or nothing like that, so we always had to struggle in the family – and I come from a big family.

Sometimes, when I see my granddaughters make small discoveries of their own, I wish I were a child.

His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even… knowledge, was foolproof.

My father wasn’t a cruel man. And I loved him. But he was a pretty tough character. His own father was even tougher – one of those Victorians, hard as iron – but my dad was tough enough.

All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

We should not look down on our first ancestors.

The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.

Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.

That’s the most terrible thing about being an author – standing there at your mother’s funeral, but you don’t switch the author off. So your own innermost thoughts are grist for the mill. Who was it said – one of the famous lady novelists – ‚unhappy is the family that contains an author‘?

Without Cambodia, I may never have become a mother. Part of my heart is and will always be in this country. And part of this country is always with me: Maddox.

When you have two busy kids running around the house, returning e-mails is a task, let alone surfing the web.

I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

All that the future holds in store for each sacred child of God will be shaped by his or her parents, family, friends, and teachers. Thus, our faith now becomes part of our posterity’s faith later.

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

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

The real lover is the man who can thrill you just by touching your head or smiling into your eyes – or just by staring into space.

In each soul, God loves and partly saves the whole world which that soul sums up in an incommunicable and particular way.

We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.