My mom was truly an iconic figure a great journalist and a pioneering woman who died at 54 of cancer without ever having revealed to viewers that she was ill.

Mom was the greatest influence of my childhood. She wanted to save me from the vice lust and drinking that was all about me.

I don't spend a lot of time online. My mother's really good at picking out if she sees a really great review and she'll forward it to me. She's like my little Internet filter. It's always nice to see something going up if I want to find something on Nathan Fillion I do know where to look but I've got a nice little delivery system in my mom.

My mom was a teacher - I have the greatest respect for the profession - we need great teachers - not poor or mediocre ones.

Every single thing I learned about marketing and building my business I learned from my mom and she had never been in the workforce. She just had great practical sense.

So far I'm not surprised by anything about being a mom. It's all pretty great - but that's what I expected.

My mom used to make everything. She had a great garden and composted and made everything from scratch - peanut butter bread jelly everything. I don't know how she did it because all those things take time and love and labour. I only do half the stuff she does - but there's still time.

And the greatest lesson that mom ever taught me though was this one. She told me there would be times in your life when you have to choose between being loved and being respected. Now she said to always pick being respected.

I guess I was a mom so late in life my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.

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

It's rather splendid to think of all those great men and women who appear to have presented symptoms that allow us to describe them as bipolar. Whether it's Hemingway Van Gogh... Robert Schumann has been mentioned... Virginia Woolf Sylvia Plath... some of them with rather grim ends.

The greater intellect one has the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.

Resolved that the women of this nation in 1876 have greater cause for discontent rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.

Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Silently and imperceptibly as we wake or sleep we grow strong or weak and at last some crisis shows what we have become.

Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed for if you merely offend them they take vengeance but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.

The greatest enemy to human souls is the self-righteous spirit which makes men look to themselves for salvation.

If we are marked to die we are enough to do our country loss and if to live the fewer men the greater share of honor.

An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.

Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men and men are great only if they are determined to be so.

There would be no great men if there were no little ones.

In life we shall find many men that are great and some that are good but very few men that are both great and good.

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

And of course identifying all human genes and proteins will have great medical significance.

Just the actual physical ability to hold four instruments simultaneously and do some of the things that Vivien was able to do is mind blowing to any surgeon. He never went to medical school and he became one of the great teachers of medicine himself people are just amazed.