"They see me as being this Super Mom on TV who also can more than handle a difficult husband, and they assume I'm going to be just full of wisdom as a mother and wife myself"

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

"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"

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

"On every thorn, delightful wisdom grows, In every rill a sweet instruction flows"

"The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom"

"Silence does not always mark wisdom"

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

"Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense"

"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"

"Nature and wisdom never are at strife"