All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.

If parents would only realize how they bore their children!

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. 

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

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

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

Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had.

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

My father! The sun is my father, and the earth is my mother, and on her bosom I will recline.

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

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

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.