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

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

In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.

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.

If parents would only realize how they bore their children!

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

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

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

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

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

Men are what their mothers made them.

There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.

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