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.

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.

My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.

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

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

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

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

The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, is in its loyalty to each other.

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

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

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

It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.