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

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

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

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

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

If parents would only realize how they bore their children!

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.

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

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.

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

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

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