There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.

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

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

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

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

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

I cannot bear a parent’s tears.

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

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

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

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

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.

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