A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy till they die!

Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.

My father! The sun is my father, and the earth is my mother, and on her bosom I will recline.

The most socially subversive institution of our time is the one-parent family.

I cannot bear a parent’s tears.

Family! Thou art the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children.

The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, is in its loyalty to each other.

My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.

Familiarity breeds contempt—and children.

Mother died today. Or maybe it was yesterday, I don’t know. 

If parents would only realize how they bore their children!

Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.

It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.