"I find celebrity status difficult to bear when I am in the company of my 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"

"A company is only as good as the people it keeps"

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

"Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre"

"Diligence is the mother of good luck"

"All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his"

"The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization"

"I have an almost religious zeal... not for technology per se, but for the Internet which is for me, the nervous system of mother Earth, which I see as a living creature, linking up"

"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"