The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother’s side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.

- Benjamin Franklin -

You cannot heal the world until you heal yourself.

- Katrina Mayer -

Optimism is the one quality more associated with success and happiness than any other.

- Brian Tracy -

He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.

- Benjamin Franklin -

What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.

- Walter Lippmann -