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.

Familiarity breeds contempt—and children.

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

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

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

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.

If parents would only realize how they bore their children!

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

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

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

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

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