How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are we must know our mothers names.

Mothers always find ways to fit in the work - but then when you're working you feel that you should be spending time with your children and then when you're with your children you're thinking about working.

I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet there would be no more wars.

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law but we do want them for our brothers.

Such is the nature of men that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty or more eloquent or more learned yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.

If all men knew what others say of them there would not be four friends in the world.

Men are like the stars some generate their own light while others reflect the brilliance they receive.

Even if society dictates that men and women should behave in certain ways it is fathers and mothers who teach those ways to children not just in the words they say but in the lives they lead.

Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men between brothers?

All wars are civil wars because all men are brothers.

Adversity causes some men to break others to break records.

You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others who think that the world owes them a living. They don't seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together.

I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.

Mothers - especially single mothers - are heroic in their efforts to raise our nation's children but men must also take responsibility for their children and recognize the impact they have on their families' well-being.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

Men are what their mothers made them.

Either men will learn to live like brothers or they will die like beasts.

Men rise from one ambition to another: first they seek to secure themselves against attack and then they attack others.

I did know Ted Hughes and I partly wrote the book to explain to myself and others the complexities of a marriage that was for six years wonderfully productive of poetry and then ended in tragedy.

I took the fear of marriage from my parents' relationship because I didn't want to end up in a relationship like that whereas my brothers and sisters learnt a lesson from it and made sure they didn't carry it on into their own marriages.

I would like it to be known that I have decided not to marry Group Capt. Peter Townsend. Mindful of the church's teaching that Christian marriage is indissoluble and conscious of my duty to the Commonwealth I have resolved to put these considerations before any others.

My older sister was at the cusp of new wave and I had older brothers from my father's first marriage who were rock 'n' roll guys so I was exposed to a lot of popular culture.

My argument is simple which is that for several thousand years in Western civilization marriage has been the union of one man and one woman. Research is overwhelming that children need mothers and fathers.