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.

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

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. 

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

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

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

I cannot bear a parent’s tears.

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

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

If parents would only realize how they bore their children!

Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had.

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

Men are what their mothers made them.