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

I cannot bear a parent’s tears.

Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.

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

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

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

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

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

If parents would only realize how they bore their children!

The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by 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 strength of a family, like the strength of an army, is in its loyalty to each other.

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.