My mom and I have always been very close. She is my best friend. She had to make a lot of sacrifices early on in my life to make sure I got to do what I wanted to do.

I told my mom, 'I'm not buying another magazine until I can get past this thought of looking like the girl on the cover'. She said, "Miley, you are the girl on the cover,' and I was, like, 'I know, bu...

My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.

The fastest way to break the cycle of perfectionism and become a fearless mother is to give up the idea of doing it perfectly - indeed to embrace uncertainty and imperfection.

If one were to bring ten of the wisest men in the world together and ask them what was the most stupid thing in existence, they would not be able to discover anything so stupid as astrology.

The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.

We say nothing essential about the cathedral when we speak of its stones. We say nothing essential about Man when we seek to define him by the qualities of men.

Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known.

One can be a brother only in something. Where there is no tie that binds men, men are not united but merely lined up.

A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them.

The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!

No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so.

Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.

Men would live exceedingly quiet if these two words, mine and thine, were taken away.

I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means.

Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.

Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.

'Men have forgotten this truth,' said the fox. 'But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.'

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.

A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten,' he does not say 'My men were beaten.'