"My mother carried on and supported us; her ambition had been to write poetry and songs"

"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"

"Ambition is not a vice of little people"

"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"

"It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book"

"It is the timber of poetry that wears most surely, and there is no timber that has not strong roots among the clay and worms"

"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"