"I'm a mother, I'm a journalist, I'm an American; I'm all of those things, and it really complicates your job when you have all these things come into play"

"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"

"The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast"

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

"With foxes we must play the fox"

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

"Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword"

"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"

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