"As a former teacher and a mother and grandmother, I know firsthand the importance of a quality education"

"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"

"Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college"

"Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten"

"The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows"

"A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching"

"Of all the hard jobs around, one of the hardest is being a good teacher"

"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"

"Diligence is the mother of good luck"