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

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

The root of the kingdom is in the State. The root of the State is in the family. The root of the family is in the person of its Head.

I cannot bear a parent’s tears.

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 peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.

Few sons are equal to their fathers; most fall short, all too few surpass them. 

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

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

Men are what their mothers made them.

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

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

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.