“A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.” — Dorothy Canfield Fisher “Men are what their mothers made them.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson “The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world.” — W.S. Ross “All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.” — Abraham Lincoln “Chance favors the prepared mind.” — Louis Pasteur “Persistence in prayer for someone whom we don’t like, however much it goes against the grain to begin with, brings about a remarkable change in attitude.” — F.F. Bruce “You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.” — Zig Ziglar “You always pass failure on the way to success.” — Mickey Rooney “Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive good things and good people will be drawn…