"Motherhood is a choice you make every day, to put someone else's happiness and well-being ahead of your own, to teach the hard lessons, to do the right thing even when you're not sure what the right thing is... and to forgive yourself, over and over again, for doing everything wrong."
"My wife once said that if men had to worry about who was going to clean up the mess, there'd be a lot less violence in the world."
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Source: Interview with Eric Golub, tygrrrrexpress.com. November 8th, 2008.
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