Sheen on motherhood

My friend Lauren lent me copy of “America’s Bishop: The Life and Times of Fulton J. Sheen,” by Thomas C. Reeves. In it, Reeves is talking about Sheen’s mother and he quotes  a passage from Sheen’s Way to Inner Peace:

The best influences in life are undeliberate, unconscious; when no one is watching, or when reaction to the good deed was never sought. Such is the long-range influence of a mother in a home; fulfilling of daily duties with love and a spirit of self-sacrifice leaves an imprint on children that deepens with the years.”