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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I cannot bear a parent’s tears.

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.