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.

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

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

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

I cannot bear a parent’s tears.

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

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’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.

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

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

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

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