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

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

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

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 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.

Familiarity breeds contempt—and children.

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

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

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

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

Men are what their mothers made them.

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

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