Thou art thy mother’s glass, and she in thee
Calls back the lovely April of her prime.
William Shakespeare

Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.
Camille Paglia

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy. Spanish Proverb

I regard no man as poor who has a godly mother.
Abraham Lincoln

A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Who ran to help me when I fell, And would some pretty story tell, Or kiss the place to make it well? My mother
Ann Taylor

But the mother’s yearning, that completest type of the life in another life which is the essence of real human love, feels the presence of the cherished child even in the debased, degraded man.
George Eliot

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn’t touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God – the rest will be given.

Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do… but how much love we put in that action.

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.

Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.

The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

There is only one better thing than music – live music. (Jacek Bukowski)

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. (Aldous Huxley)

Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned. (George Bernard Shaw)

I hate music, especially when it’s played. ( Jimmy Durante)

I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music. (George Eliot)

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.(Victor Hugo)

Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable.(Martin Luther)

Music is what I love and it’s what I feel and it’s in me and to know that I can do something that I enjoy and hopefully bring some enjoyment to other people through is an incredible felling and I am just really thankful for it. (Mariah Carey)

Music makes one feel so romantic – at least it always gets on one’s nerves – which is the same thing nowadays. (Oscar Wilde)

There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music. (George Eliot)

The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, “Is there a meaning to music?” My answer would be, “Yes.” And “Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?” My answer to that would be, “No.” (Aaron Copland)

A strong memory is commonly coupled with infirm judgement. Montaigne, Essays

Women and elephants never forget. Dorothy Parker, Ballads of Unfortunate Animals

If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered. Edgar Allan Poe, Marginalia

Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis. (Karl Kraus)

I do not believe in the immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern without any superhuman authority behind it. (Albert Einstein)

Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle. (George Washington)

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike. (Oscar Wilde)