I was going to go to Europe to study, and that's when my mother's disease heightened, and it was really necessary that I step in. Then I said, okay, this is more important than my career in music.

I was born in Lausanne, Switzerland, and we lived there for three to five years - with my mother and father. And then they divorced and she came back to America.

I knew she was famous, but she was my mom, a regular mom.

Frank Sinatra was a popular star, but he was always so sweet and friendly to me that I was excited just to be next to him.

It's far easier to brush off death if the death in question seems impossible or improbable as a personal threat.

A few countries like Sri Lanka and Honduras have led the way in slashing maternal mortality.

Death can't be so bad if mom went through it. It makes it easier for the child to follow.

Captain Hale, alone, without sympathy or support, save that from above, on the near approach of death asked for a clergyman to attend him. It was refused. He then requested a Bible; that too was refused by his inhuman jailer.