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

Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.  

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

If parents would only realize how they bore their children!

A family’s photograph album is generally about the extended family—and, often, is all that remains of it.

God is our father, but even more is God our mother.

There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.

Familiarity breeds contempt—and children.

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

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.

It’s frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself… it seems unfair. You can’t assume the responsibility for everything you do—or don’t do.

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

As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.