Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.

I think tolerance and acceptance and love is something that feeds every community.

Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.

My mother would kill me if I posed nude! My mother raised me with certain standards.

In fact, my courage and my bravery at a young age was the thing I was bullied for, a kind of 'Who do you think you are?'

My mom loved to sing - and I'll go on record and say she was the worst singer ever. I'd get up and move away from her!