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

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.

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

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

Family! Thou art the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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