That strong mother doesn't tell her cub, Son, stay weak so the wolves can get you. She says, Toughen up, this is reality we are living in.

Acceptance, tolerance, bravery, compassion. These are the things my mom taught me!

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

I was an only child, and Mother was always right with me all my life. I used to get very angry at her when I was growing up-it's a natural thing.

Everyone carries within himself an image of womanliness derived from his mother: it is this that determines whether, on the whole, he will revere women, or despise them, or remain generally indifferent to them.

Art keeps me alive. I've obviously been devastated or heartbroken all my life, since my mother's death.