“A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.”

– Dorothy C. Fisher (1879 – 1958), quoted in O Magazine, May 2003

“The most important thing she’d learned over the years was that there was no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.”

– Jill Churchill, O Magazine, May 2003

“What children take from us, they give…We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.”

– Sonia Taitz, O Magazine, May 2003

“Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.”

– Leo Buscaglia (1925 – )