The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.
Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.
You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.
A sister is a gift to the heart, a friend to the spirit, a golden thread to the meaning of life.
Children are not a distraction from more important work. They are the most important work.
Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone ought to be.
When you're a mother, you're never really alone in your thoughts... a mother always has to think twice once for herself and once for her child.
Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.
I think my mom put it best. She said, 'Little girls soften their daddy's hearts.'
No man stands taller than when he stoops to help a child.
