"Being a publicist is like management in a lot of ways - you're their friend, you're their mother, you're their confidante"

"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"

"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"

"A mother should give her children a superabundance of enthusiasm; that after they have lost all they are sure to lose on mixing with the world, enough may still remain to prompt fated support them through great actions"

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

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

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

"Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure"