A mother’s happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories. – Honoré de Balzac

No language can express the power, and beauty, and heroism, and majesty of a mother’s love. It shrinks not where man cowers, and grows stronger where man faints, and over wastes of worldly fortunes sends the radiance of its quenchless fidelity like a star. – Edwin Hubbell Chapin

It’s not easy being a mother. If it were easy, fathers would do it. – From the television show The Golden Girls