"My mother carried on and supported us; her ambition had been to write poetry and songs"

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

"Ambition is not a vice of little people"

"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"

"It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book"

"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"

"Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked"

"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"

"Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance"