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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

One race there is of men, one of gods, but from one mother we both draw our breath.

He that raises a large family, does indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand…a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too. 

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.

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

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