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

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

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

I cannot bear a parent’s tears.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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