I would much rather be known as the mother of a great son than the author of a great book or the painter of a great masterpiece.

I am just an old-fashioned girl.

It's wrong for parents to bury their children. It should be the other way around.

When you hold your baby in your arms the first time, and you think of all the things you can say and do to influence him, it's a tremendous responsibility. What you do with him can influence not only him, but everyone he meets and not for a day or a month or a year but for time and eternity.

I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it.

Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

I have come to the conclusion that the most important element in human life is faith.