The most socially subversive institution of our time is the one-parent family.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Men are what their mothers made them.

It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.

Familiarity breeds contempt—and children.

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

I cannot bear a parent’s tears.