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

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

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.

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

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

The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, is in its loyalty to each other.

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.

Family! Thou art the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children.

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.

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

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.

It is impossible to please all the world and one’s father.

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