"A day is sometimes our mother, sometimes our stepmother"

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

"Better one's House be too little one day than too big all the Year after"

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

"My sorrow, when she's here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane"

"Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time"

"There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk"

"Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things"

"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character"

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

"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"