"When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts.  You are connected to your child and to all those who touch your lives.  A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child."

~Sophia Loren, Italian actress (b. September 20, 1934)


"Hold fast the time!  Guard it, watch over it, every hour, every minute!  Unregarded it slips away. . . Hold every moment sacred.  Give each clarity and meaning, each the weight of thine awareness, each its true and due fulfillment."

~ Thomas Mann (1875 - 1955) German novelist.