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.

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

If parents would only realize how they bore their children!

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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