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

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

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

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.

Men are what their mothers made them.

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.

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

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

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.

Familiarity breeds contempt—and children.

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

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

Families, I hate you! Shut-in homes, closed doors, jealous possessions of happiness.