Dan clung to her in speechless gratitude, feeling the blessedness of mother love, — that divine gift which comforts, purifies, and strengthens all who seek it.

Mothers can forgive anything! Tell me all, and be sure that I will never let you go, though the whole world should turn from you.

Men are always ready to die for us, but not to make our lives worth having. Cheap sentiment and bad logic.

…proved that woman isn't a half but a whole human being, and can stand alone.

It's lovely to see people so happy.

…what splendid dreams young people build upon a word, and how bitter is the pain when the bright bubbles burst.

Young people think they never can change, but they do in the most wonderful manner, and very few die of broken hearts.

…she rejoiced as only mothers can in the good fortunes of their children.

I do like men who come out frankly and own that they are not gods.

…having learned that people cannot be moulded like clay…

…I'm always ready to talk, shouldn't be a woman if I were not, ' laughed Mrs. Jo…

The keys of happiness and success lie beyond your fear fences. Jump over the fences NOW

I think all of us are always five years old in the presence and absence of our parents.

And whose fault was it that the boy swallowed down lies, when no one would feed him the truth?

The "democratization of education" is everyone's fight, everyone's right.

I was too much of a victim of the model I created. I tried Change to Win and helping Obama, and then I just ran out of Andy Stern ideas.

The strongest feelings assigned to the conscience are not moral feelings at all; they express merely physical antipathies.

Nothing can afford a woman greater pleasure than to hear tender words of love. The strictest, most devout woman will listen even if she must not answer.

The rosary is the most powerful weapon to touch the Heart of Jesus, Our Redeemer, who loves His Mother.

I've been so busy I haven't had a chance to go crazy. I don't party like I used to

I could get a better education interviewing John Steinbeck than talking to an English professor about novels.