Everybody came out OK except my mother. She was in the back seat and was thrown into the windshield.

Considering everybody else around here, we came out good. Mom, she's living and still around. That's a pretty good Christmas present.

She tried to cook spaghetti once but only put in a couple teaspoons of water. So we have to cook for her now. But that's OK. She's got a lot of people behind her with everything she's been through and all.

A good woman would rather be the mother of a genius than the wife of a hero

Her heart is older than her head; yea, her emotion is the mother of her reason

Some, like Mother Teresa, are born with a gene to help the poor, and some are born with a gene to write. I was born with a gene to tell my story, and I just had to.