"You have to love your children unselfishly. That's hard. But it's the only way"

"The biggest coward is a man who awakens a woman’s love with no intention of loving her"

"Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop"

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

"If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses"

"Its love that makes the world go round, my baby"

"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"

"Now we maintain that we cannot be afford to be concerned about 6 percent of the children in this country, black children, who you allow to come into white schools. We have 94 percent who still live in shacks. We are going to be concerned about those 94 percent"

"I want to paint big, bright, optimistic pictures of the place I love"

"Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit"

"If you judge people, you have no time to love them"