I cannot bear a parent’s tears.

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

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

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.

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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