"My mother says I didn't open my eyes for eight days after I was born, but when I did, the first thing I saw was an engagement ring. I was hooked"

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

"Better one's House be too little one day than too big all the Year after"

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

"The eyes have one language everywhere"

"My sorrow, when she's here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane"

"Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards"

"Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time"

"There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk"

"Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things"

"Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes"