"It's hard and sometimes it's scary. It still amazes my mother. I went home for Christmas one year and there were fans all over the front lawn, hoping to see me"

"Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible"

"What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin"

"Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles"

"He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree"

"I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year"

"All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his"

"The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization"

"Children that are raised in a home with a married mother and father consistently do better in every measure of well-being than their peers who come from divorced or step-parent, single-parent, cohabiting homes"

"I have an almost religious zeal... not for technology per se, but for the Internet which is for me, the nervous system of mother Earth, which I see as a living creature, linking up"

"There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep"