"I want to be more successful as a mother than I am in show business"

"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"

"Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made"

"Business is the salt of life"

"Architects are pretty much high-class whores. We can turn down projects the way they can turn down some clients, but we've both got to say yes to someone if we want to stay in business"

"I like Mr. Gorbachev, we can do business together"

"Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop"

"All lasting business is built on friendship"

"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"

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