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

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

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

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

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

By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.

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

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

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

I cannot bear a parent’s tears.

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

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

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