"My mother had gotten a job as a receptionist at a dancing school and had the idea that we should open our own dancing school; we did, and it prospered"

"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"

"Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other"

"Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college"

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

"He who opens a school door, closes a prison"

"Diligence is the mother of good luck"

"The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next"

"True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country"

"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"