In a culture that gives men irresponsible power and women powerless responsibility, the advancement of civilization cannot be a serious goal.

A mother is neither cocky, nor proud, because she knows the school principal may call at any minute to report that her child had just driven a motorcycle through the gymnasium.

Divorce is the psychological equivalent of a triple coronary bypass.

Mother is the first word that occurs to politicians and columnists and popes when they raise the question, 'Why isn't life turning out the way we want it?

When trouble comes no mother should have to plead guilty alone. The pediatricians, psychologists, therapists, goat herders, fathers, and peer groups should all be called to the bench as well. . . .

Divorce is the psychological equivalent of a triple coronary by pass. After such a monumental assault on the heart, it takes years to amend all the habits and attitudes that led up to it.

It's an old trick now, God knows, but it works every time. At the very moment women start to expand their place in the world, scientific studies deliver compelling reasons for them to stay home.

Women aren't trying to do too much. Women have too much to do.

Families don't always realize that mother is exhausted, because mother is always exhausted. Exhausted is what looks normal.

A mother can legitimately be said to 'have a baby' - but in a civilization such as ours, she can never claim to own a teenager.

One life stamps and influences another, which in turn stamps and influences another, on and on, until the soul of human experience breathes on in generations we'll never meet.

in all the years we spend together, I never once regretted the fact that I had chosen her and that she had chosen me as well.

The idea of connecting all people to knowledge and each other is enduring

Within a week, or a month, Saddam could give his WMD to al-Qaeda.

Bashar Assad is a major cause of the refugees which are now flooding Europe and causing such consternation in the United States.

The people will always attempt to find the positive aspects of all circumstances, which, in themselves, are not susceptible to danger.

Belief in non-violence is based on the assumption that human nature in the essence is one and therefore unfailingly responds to the advances of love.

Every species, human and subhuman, has some distinguishing mark, so that you can tell a man from a beast, or a dog from a cow.

When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.

You just let people do what they do and look at them and give them enough rope until they do what you thought they were going to do... which is screw you over.