"When I was six years old, my mother died; and then, for the first time, I learned, by the talk around me, that I was a slave"

"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"

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

"There can be no tyrants where there are no slaves"

"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"

"The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it"

"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"