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

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

Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Familiarity breeds contempt—and children.

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