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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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