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

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

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.

A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy till they die!

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

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.

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

Men are what their mothers made them.

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.

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

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

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