Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons.

The future destiny of a child is always the work of the mother.

My mom's one of 13 siblings, and they all got six kids, and till I was 13 everybody was in Compton.

Perhaps it was history that ordained that it be here, at the Cape of Good Hope that we should lay the foundation stone of our new nation. For it was here at this Cape, over three centuries ago, that there began the fateful convergence of the peoples of Africa, Europe and Asia on these shores.

What makes a nation in the beginning is a good piece of geography.

I never had, like, a nanny that took care of me. My mom always fed me breakfast, lunch, and dinner.