If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.

All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges; let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs; let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in courts of justice.

Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety.

I wasn't born to a wealthy or powerful family mother from Puerto Rico, dad from the South Bronx.

My mother cleaned homes and drove school buses, and when my family was on the brink of foreclosure... I started bartending and waitressing.

In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.

Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.