When you are looking at your mother you are looking at the purest love you will ever know.

Charley Benetto

One of the universal fears of childhood is the fear of not having value in the eyes of the people whom we admire so much.

Fred Rogers

Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.

Fred Rogers

Parents aren't the people you come from. They're the people you want to be, when you grow up.

Jodi Picoult

I believe the choice to become a mother is the choice to become one of the greatest spiritual teachers there is.

Oprah

Three meals plus bedtime make four sure blessings a day.

Mason Cooley