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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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