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

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

Familiarity breeds contempt—and children.

If parents would only realize how they bore their children!

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

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

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

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

The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.

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.

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

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!