"But it's also because of something personal. My mother and father met while playing chess, so I've always had a fondness for the game. If it weren't for chess, I might not be here"

"Our Father and Our God, unto thee, O Lord we lift our souls"

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

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

"He who obeys God's laws finds him a father. He who disobeys them, finds him a judge"

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

"Diligence is the mother of good fortune"

"The mob is the mother of tyrants"

"I went to school at this log school house. A white woman was my teacher, I do not remember her name. My father had to pay her one dollar a month for me. Us kids that went to school did not have desks, we used slates and set on the hued down logs for seats"

"On the day I was born, or possibly on one of the following days, my father went on a walk in the forested hills and thought of a name for me. His first son was called Daniel, and Samuel in memory of one of his forefathers"

"Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away"