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

It is impossible to please all the world and one’s father.

Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had.

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.

If parents would only realize how they bore their children!

By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.

To be a successful father… there’s one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don’t look at it for the first two years.

The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended—and not to take a hint when a hint isn’t intended.

In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.

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

The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.

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

Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one’s own Trojan horse.