All that I am or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

It is at our mother's knee that we acquire our noblest and truest and highest ideals.

Mother illuminated to me the kindliest light this world has ever known, which has endowed literature and the theatre with their greatest and richest themes: love, pity and humanity.

When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.

Being a mother means that your heart is no longer yours; it wanders wherever your children do.

My father really was not the dominant person who raised the family, it was my mother who raised the family.