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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

Families, I hate you! Shut-in homes, closed doors, jealous possessions of happiness.

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

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

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

Men are what their mothers made them.