"There was never a great man who had not a great mother"

"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"

"It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. It is like a stone wasted on the field without becoming a part of any edifice"

"Behind every great fortune lies a great crime"

"Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them"

"Men are only as great as they are kind"

"He's by best friend and the father of my children. He's a great ex"

"The only way to do great work is to love what you do"

"To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization"

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